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PRESS KIT July 2015 National Aeronautics and Space Administration wwwnasagov Table of Contents NASA146s New Horizons Nears Historic Pluto Flyby 5 Media Services Information 6 Quick Facts 7 M. PLUTO PLUTO - Phase Only Spatial Light ModulatorsThe PLUTO phase modulator models are based on reflective m pixel pitch. The PLUTO phase modulator series covers different versions optimized for diffe By the way, what Written By: Katie Lucken. “Though the Queen Alina is no longer with us, she has chosen our next ruler well! . Long . live Queen Jilliette Lutunia!” The royal announcer . boomed.. Jilliette walked up the . B. y. T. a. y. l. a . &. J. e. s. s. a. m. y. Who Discovered Pluto?. Percivul. . Lowel. Pluto has one moon called Charon.. Pluto has no volcanoes, it has a surface of rock and ice.. Pluto is named after a Greek God (or Roman).. Mission. Status Report for SBAG. Will Grundy. Lowell Observatory. New Horizons: To . Pluto and Beyond. Pluto-Charon. July 2015. KBOs. 2016-2020. Jupiter System. Feb-March 2007. The Initial Reconnaissance of The Solar System. th. 2015. https. ://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-pluto-images-from-nasa-s-new-horizons-it-s-complicated. The heart-shaped icy region of Pluto. Close up of the ‘heart-shaped’ icy region of Pluto. New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator reveal a giant surprise: a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the icy body.. Planetary Exploration: New Horizons Explores The Pluto System 2015 July 2015 Be There ! New Horizons: Science At The Pluto System Total System Characterization • New satellites? Dust ring Voyage to Unexplored Pluto and a the rst reconnaissance of the Pluto system and by Belt – a relic of solar system formation. reconnaissance yby study of Pluto and its moons that started in ear Astrophotos. . of the . Month. June 2015. CFAS Astrophoto of the Month. Copyright. : . NASA. Hubble Composite of Pluto. CFAS Astrophoto of the Month. CFAS . Astrophoto. of the . Month. Pluto Charon orbits. By SamO. Introduction. In the slide you will learn that Pluto is made ice. you will also learn about how tall pluto is, how far it is from the Sun and Earth, the discoverer and many many more. . Surface and Atmosphere. Pluto’s Discover. Pluto was discovered after . the other 8 . planets and was originally considered a planet itself until 2006. In the early 1900s, Planet "X" was the temporary name given to the then-unknown planet beyond Neptune that disturbed the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. Percival Lowell calculated the rough location of Planet "X's" orbit, but died in 1916 before it was found. This planet was eventually found by the American astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh in 1930 and named Pluto. . Size, Color, Surface Features, Rotation, Revolution, and Density. 2,302 km in diameter . 20% of Earth’s size. Darker color with white splotches. i. ce caps, sediment, nitrogen, methane, carbon monoxide . Image Credit: . nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Image Credit: pluto.jhuapl.edu. Image Credit: pluto.jhuapl.edu. Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute. Once perceived as distant, cold, dark, and seemingly unknowable, Pluto had long been marked as the farthest and most unreachable frontier for solar system exploration. After Voyager accomplished its final planetary reconnaissance at Neptune in 1989, Pluto and its cohort in the Kuiper Belt beckoned as the missing puzzle piece for completing the first reconnaissance of our solar system. In the decades following Voyager, a mission to the Pluto system was not only imagined but also achieved, culminating with the historic 2015 flyby by the New Horizons spacecraft. Pluto and its satellite system (“the Pluto system”), including its largest moon, Charon, have been revealed to be worlds of enormous complexity that fantastically exceed preconceptions.The Pluto System After New Horizons seeks to become the benchmark for synthesizing our understanding of the Pluto system. The volume’s lead editor is S. Alan Stern, who also serves as NASA’s New Horizons Principal Investigator co-editors Richard P. Binzel, William M. Grundy, Jeffrey M. Moore, and Leslie A. Young are all co-investigators on New Horizons. Leading researchers from around the globe have spent the last five years assimilating Pluto system flyby data returned from New Horizons. The chapters in this volume form an enduring foundation for ongoing study and understanding of the Pluto system. The volume also advances insights into the nature of dwarf planets and Kuiper Belt objects, providing a cornerstone for planning new missions that may return to the Pluto system and explore others of the myriad important worlds beyond Neptune.