Wednesday, January 2, 2019

A Good Start


New Year's New Horizon Ultima Thule fly-by went well.  Details at the BBC.

But first, a preliminary pic:

Brightness variations

Is it weird that I find this is even more exciting than 2015's Pluto fly-by?  I mean, we already knew a few things about Pluto, but Ultima Thule is truly unknown, primordial.  It'll be interesting to see what the rest of the data stream turns up over the next 20 months.

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