[extropy-chat] Pluto New Horizons launch -getting ready

[spike]

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From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org
[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Robert Bradbury
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Aside to Spike -- why don't you figure out how many G's New Horizons would
receive if NASA changed its direction so as to impact Pluto?...



Gotta get to work, so not much time now.  But I can assure
you, impact is out of the question.  The weight required to
make for a soft landing is mostly not practical for a Pluto
mission.  The craft must send the signals back using a very
low bandwidth antenna in order to keep it's weight and power
down, so it takes a long time to send back the signals that
were collected quickly.  A Pluto flyby is about the best we can
do for now.

More later. 

spike