Chronicles from beyond Pluto
Chronicles from beyond Pluto
Observation of Ultima Thule and trajectory adjustment for the meeting on January 1.
We are just over two weeks away from the farthest planetary meeting in history, well beyond Pluto, which one day represented a border that seemed unattainable. We will not visit a complex world like the latter, but what many expect is a fragment almost unaltered and frozen in the time arrived from the origins of the Solar System. For all this there is a maximum expectation among its scientific team, as well as among the world astronomical community, before which the New Horizons is on January 1, 2019, when it will be only 3,500 kilometers from Ultima Thule, in a fleeting flyby but that is expected historical.
The events are accelerated, and on December 1 the probe made a new course correction, a 105-second ignition that slightly altered its speed and with which the flight technicians adjusted the parameters of its current trajectory, thus ensuring that I find in the exact place and time to perform Ultima's exploration. It was the maneuver of this class farthest from the land never done, although certainly everything he does will always be "the farthest" for obvious reasons. But it is still a fact that reminds us of the incredibleness of its mission.
Hours before the ignition of the impellers the camera LORRI (Long Range Reconnaissance Imager) caught Ultima Thule. It is not the first time, since it has been making these long-distance shots since August, something that serves to clarify its position and trajectory, but now it is clearly visible among the stars in the background, which betrays its increasing proximity. "As the New Horizons approaches its goal, it becomes brighter and brighter in the navigation images taken by LORRI, "explains project scientist Hal Weaver." Now it stands out much more clearly among the sea of stars."2019 will arrive with the emotion of an encounter with another world, of the moment when our frontiers of knowledge expand again. All this beyond Pluto, which is now 1,600 million kilometers behind us. And that, considering that for so long we saw it as the final frontier only within reach of our fantasies, is absolutely incredible.
At the gates of a new world.
To the encounter of the most remote history of the Solar System.
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