Eye's on the New Horizons and the Kuiper Belt

[Speedwell]

So what happens to the Creationist argument that the Kuiper Belt is nothing but a fabrication by atheistic, Bible-hating scientists and doesn't really exist?

 

[rockytopva]

The latest image was from December 30.

 

[essentialsaltes]

So what happens to the Creationist argument that the Kuiper Belt is nothing but a fabrication by atheistic, Bible-hating scientists and doesn't really exist?

It gets repeated forever regardless of the facts?

 

[rockytopva]

Raw photos will be posted here starting Jan 1st (Nothing new yet at this time of writing).

"The resolution will improve each day, so you can watch as Ultima Thule is transformed from a barely resolved object into a new world never seen before. In the images posted on Jan. 1, Ultima is expected to be approximately 3 pixels across, but it will grow to approximately 100 pixels across for the images posted on Jan. 2, and approximately 200 pixels across for the images posted on Jan. 3."

Bump...

 

[rockytopva]

It is the snowman in space!

New Horizons: News Article?page=20190101

 

[essentialsaltes]

It certainly is Frosty!

 

[USincognito]

So what happens to the Creationist argument that the Kuiper Belt is nothing but a fabrication by atheistic, Bible-hating scientists and doesn't really exist?

I wonder what the Flat Earth folks are saying.

 

[rockytopva]

06/28/2015 - 14.54 km/s (32,500 mph)
08/14/2015 - 14.50 km/s (32,400 mph)
10/31/2015 - 14.47 km/s (32,400 mph)
01/14/2016 - 14.45 km/s (32,200 mph)
12/24/2016 - 14.43 km/s (32,200 mph)
02/01/2017 - 14.31 km/s (32,000 mph)
06/02/2017 - 14.27 km/s (31,900 mph)
07/06/2017 - 14.26 km/s (31,900 mph)
12/26/2017 - 14.20 km/s (31,765 mph)
08/02/2018 - 14.14 km/s (31,630 mph)
09/01/2018 - 14.13 km/s (31,608 mph)
11/28/2018 - 14.10 km/s (31,540 mph)
03/18/2019 - 14.07 km/s (31,474 mph)

New Horizons: News Article?page=20190318

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

06/28/2015 - 14.54 km/s (32,500 mph)
08/14/2015 - 14.50 km/s (32,400 mph)
10/31/2015 - 14.47 km/s (32,400 mph)
01/14/2016 - 14.45 km/s (32,200 mph)
12/24/2016 - 14.43 km/s (32,200 mph)
02/01/2017 - 14.31 km/s (32,000 mph)
06/02/2017 - 14.27 km/s (31,900 mph)
07/06/2017 - 14.26 km/s (31,900 mph)
12/26/2017 - 14.20 km/s (31,765 mph)
08/02/2018 - 14.14 km/s (31,630 mph)
09/01/2018 - 14.13 km/s (31,608 mph)
11/28/2018 - 14.10 km/s (31,540 mph)
03/18/2019 - 14.07 km/s (31,474 mph)

New Horizons: News Article?page=20190318

Nice vid - May's music rather reminded me of Public Service Broadcasting's productions.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Color image of MU69 is the Astronomy Photo of the Day (APOD)

"it's the reddest outer solar system object ever visited by a spacecraft from Earth. Its reddish hue is believed to be due to organic materials on its surface."

 

[Radrook]

It certainly is Frosty!

06/28/2015 - 14.54 km/s (32,500 mph)
08/14/2015 - 14.50 km/s (32,400 mph)
10/31/2015 - 14.47 km/s (32,400 mph)
01/14/2016 - 14.45 km/s (32,200 mph)
12/24/2016 - 14.43 km/s (32,200 mph)
02/01/2017 - 14.31 km/s (32,000 mph)
06/02/2017 - 14.27 km/s (31,900 mph)
07/06/2017 - 14.26 km/s (31,900 mph)
12/26/2017 - 14.20 km/s (31,765 mph)
08/02/2018 - 14.14 km/s (31,630 mph)
09/01/2018 - 14.13 km/s (31,608 mph)
11/28/2018 - 14.10 km/s (31,540 mph)
03/18/2019 - 14.07 km/s (31,474 mph)

New Horizons: News Article?page=20190318

Exceeding escape-velocity would be my greatest concern while being on the surface. Would fear that the slightest twitch of my torso or unintended flick of a foot might send me sailing kicking and screaming straight into the wide black yonder.

 

[Radrook]

Interesting stuff, but I wouldn't call 5.2 AU 'not that far away'! Though I suppose you could argue it is in terms of the solar system as a whole.

That is approx 480,000,000 miles!

 

[rockytopva]

Exeeding the escape velocity would be my greatest concern while being on the thing. Would fear that the slightest twitch of my torso or unintended flick of a foot might send me sailing kicking and screaming straight into the wide black yonder.

06/28/2015 - 14.54 km/s (32,500 mph)
08/14/2015 - 14.50 km/s (32,400 mph)
10/31/2015 - 14.47 km/s (32,400 mph)
01/14/2016 - 14.45 km/s (32,200 mph)
12/24/2016 - 14.43 km/s (32,200 mph)
02/01/2017 - 14.31 km/s (32,000 mph)
06/02/2017 - 14.27 km/s (31,900 mph)
07/06/2017 - 14.26 km/s (31,900 mph)
12/26/2017 - 14.20 km/s (31,765 mph)
08/02/2018 - 14.14 km/s (31,630 mph)
09/01/2018 - 14.13 km/s (31,608 mph)
11/28/2018 - 14.10 km/s (31,540 mph)
03/18/2019 - 14.07 km/s (31,474 mph)
05/23/2019 - 14.06 km/s (31,450 mph)

And the location of other space probes... I wonder if the sun's gravity will pull them back home?

The latest on Ultima Thule (New Horizons: Beyond Pluto)

 

[Radrook]

It gets repeated forever regardless of the facts?

Most creationists are not flat-earthers. In fact, you don't even have to believe in God to be a flat-earther. Many are just convinced by the evidence for a flat earth that flat-earthers provide and couldn't care less about religion. For example, some pilots claim that they don't have to compensate for earth-curvature on long flights and that their gyroscopes don't indicate Earth curvatue. Things like that.

BTW
I have been associating with Christians all my life and have never ecountered a flat Earther offline. The vast majority of creationist believe that the Earth is round as Isaiah describes it.

 

[essentialsaltes]

And the location of other space probes... I wonder if the sun's gravity will pull them back home?

New Horizons, the Pioneers and Voyagers have all reached escape velocity from the sun. They won't be coming back.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Most creationists are not flat-earthers.

O...kay. Nobody was talking about the earth's shape.

 

[Radrook]

O...kay. Nobody was talking about the earth's shape.

The persons I responded to on post 303, and 307, speak as if being a flat-Earther is typical of all persons who believe in a creator. Just trying to clarify.

BTW

New Horizons spacecraft is now 4.1 billion miles (6.6 billion kilometers) from Earth speeding deeper into the Kuiper Belt at nearly 33,000 miles (53,000 kilometers) per hour.

To get an idea of just how fast that really is, please note that a 25-06 bullet leaves the muzzle at 2,700 miles an hour. Which means that The new Horizon is traveling 12.2 times faster than this. To match The New Horizon’s speed, we would have to increase that bullet’s velocity twelve times.


At that velocity it covers a distance of approx 792,000 miles per day. The moons’s distance from Earth average is 250,000 miles. So The New Horizons travels the equivalent of

approx 3 1/2 Earth to Moon distances each day.

21 average Earth-to-moon distances per week.

105 Earth-to-moon distances per month.

1, 260 Earth-to-moon distances per year.

Yet universal distances are so vast that the speed of light, which covers 186,000 miles in one second, is considered slow.

 

[rockytopva]

From the Biggest Heart in the Solar System: Happy Valentine's Day!

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/multimedia-db/Pluto_Valentine-4UP.pdf
New Horizons

06/28/2015 - 14.54 km/s (32,500 mph)
08/14/2015 - 14.50 km/s (32,400 mph)
10/31/2015 - 14.47 km/s (32,400 mph)
01/14/2016 - 14.45 km/s (32,200 mph)
12/24/2016 - 14.43 km/s (32,200 mph)
02/01/2017 - 14.31 km/s (32,000 mph)
06/02/2017 - 14.27 km/s (31,900 mph)
07/06/2017 - 14.26 km/s (31,900 mph)
12/26/2017 - 14.20 km/s (31,765 mph)
08/02/2018 - 14.14 km/s (31,630 mph)
09/01/2018 - 14.13 km/s (31,608 mph)
11/28/2018 - 14.10 km/s (31,540 mph)
03/18/2019 - 14.07 km/s (31,474 mph)
05/23/2019 - 14.06 km/s (31,450 mph)
02/14/2020 - 13.98 my/s (31,272 mph)

 

[essentialsaltes]

Scientists Identify Tight Window to Visit Uranus

walks away, whistling nonchalantly

 

[Speedwell]

The persons I responded to on post 303, and 307, speak as if being a flat-Earther is typical of all persons who believe in a creator. Just trying to clarify.

The reference to a flat Earth came from incidental remarks related to a question I asked which had nothing to do with a flat Earth:

So what happens to the Creationist argument that the Kuiper Belt is nothing but a fabrication by atheistic, Bible-hating scientists and doesn't really exist?