“Spacecraft approaching mysterious planet”
“Big as a piano approaching the probe, New Horizons, the mysterious rymdklippan Ultima Thule. Förbiflygningen on new year’s day means the longest as a human craft has come out in the universe.”
“Exactly what to expect do not know rymdexperterna.”
“– this is What exploration is all about, ” says Nasaforskaren Alan Stern, who is responsible for the project, to the Business Insider.”
“New Horizons is going to take several hundred photographs of Ultima Thule in the passage to allow scientists to study its geography and the area.”
“When the kärnkraftsdrivna the spacecraft started its journey in 2006, the assignment was to study the dwarf planet Pluto, 500 million miles from earth. Nasa knew then not to Ultima Thule’s existence. Only in 2014 could the celestial body, located 160 million miles beyond Pluto, is documented via the Hubble space telescope.”
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“After exploring Pluto in 2015, New Horizons continued into the unknown.”
” If we knew what we had to wait we had never travelled to Ultima Thule. It is an object that we have never encountered before, ” says Alan Stern to the Business Insider.”
“Both Pluto and the Ultima Thule is located in the so-called kuiper belt, which is made up of millions of frozen objects in orbit around the sun beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is a cold part at the edge of the solar system.”
“According to the researchers, incubates the kuiper belt on the secrets of the early solar system. It is hoped that the Ultima Thule to reveal something about how planets like earth formed.”
“Nasa describes Ultima Thule as a seed, or a building block, to a planet that has not been further developed.”
“Alan Stern, similar to the celestial body at a 4.5 billion year old time capsule.”
“– It’s like when someone for the first time opened, and went into the pharaoh’s burial chamber and discovered a 1 000 year old culture. The difference is that this is all about exploring the solar system’s beginnings, he tells Business Insider.”
“Nasa has in the last three weeks made a risk assessment of the New Horizons route. Recently it was announced that everything looks good.”
“Förbiflygningen of Ultima Thule begins on new year’s eve and takes place at the 350 mile distance. The first photographs are to wait the 2 January.”
“New Horizons weighs 385 pounds and is about as big as a piano. The travel in the 50 to 700 km in an hour.”
“the Spacecraft were launched by Nasa from Cape Canaveral in Florida on January 19, 2006.”
“The July 14, 2015 was the craft, the first to reach Pluto, its moons and other frozen objects in the kuiper belt.”
“the Journey has since continued on through the belt towards the solar system’s edge.”
“the Probe is equipped with seven different science instruments to study the himlakroppars atmosphere, the surface and the bowels of the earth.”
