Thursday, January 15, 2015

Headed to Pluto

New Horizons is entering its final run toward Pluto. She has been oriented to the dwarf planet and will begin harvesting data now. She should pass over around July 14 of this year. This will be the first, close up look at our friendly neighbor.

Its a world locked in frozen ice, that hangs on the edge of our planetary solar system, between the outer planets and the Kuiper Belt. NH has been flying 36,000 miles per hour, for 9 years and will pass within 6000 miles of Pluto at her nearest approach. That's when we'll get the really good stuff.

Read on.

Like as not, they will discover the truth of the Naga....

Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Gygaxian Fantasy Worlds: An Introduction

For several weeks now, we’ve been hyping up the Gygaxian Fantasy World series on various platforms, Facebook, X, Instagram, and Twitch. It ...

  • Word of the Day -- Halfling
    Halfling is another name for J. R. R. Tolkien's Hobbit which can be a fictional race sometimes found in fantasy novels and games. In ...
  • Where do Spoils go....
    Where do the Roads to Adventure lead? Countless battles and hordes retrieved! How now do the spoils of your endeavors pay off? In stone and...