Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Two More Moons For Pluto

Astronomers believe they have spotted two additional moons in orbit around Pluto, the most distant object in our Solar System. These photos are compliments of the Hubble Space Telescope.
It's hard to determine exactly what is going on at the edges of our Solar System, but scientists are increasingly finding more and more evidence it's much more crowded in the Kuiper belt than we had imagined. Good thing we have New Horizons.
Its mission is to scout Pluto and Charon (and now the two other potential satellites.) It will launch in 2007 and arrive sometime in 2015.
Not soon enough for me. I can't wait to see what new mysteries we discover right here in our celestial backyard...another atmosphere perhaps? Or liquid water in the freezing darkness, created by the tiny planets gravitational tug-of-war with its equally large moon.
Who knows?
We all will in 2015....

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