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>Based camera spacecraft New Horizons launched in the oldfag era
>Boomersat snapped famous pic related of Pluto a few years ago, for reference
>Redpilled NH is going to reach the chad dwarf planet Ultima Thule at ~12:30am EST on New Years Day
>UT may not have undergone geological processes that fuck up studies of our theories about planetary formation like Pluto did
>Flying close as fuck to it with cameras snapping
>Images reach Earth 4 hours after flyby
>Autists hand images to PR people soon after
>Mainstream News starts spoonfeeding normies several hours later

Get hype

>> No.10256597

>>10252382

>> No.10256604

>>10256592
It is interesting how a probe launched at Pluto is able to visit another rock, and there are talks that yet another flyby will be possible. In hindsight it would have been correct to just launch like a dozen probes into various directions towards Kuiper Belt and then refine flyby trajectories a decade later. Imagine having a flyby of such object every month.

>> No.10256633

>>10256597
OP of that bread cannot keywords, tough luck

>> No.10256644

>>10256604
a free ride when you already paid

>> No.10256649

>>10256604
>It is interesting how a probe launched at Pluto is able to visit another rock, and there are talks that yet another flyby will be possible.
Ion drives are a helluva drug.

>> No.10256705

Thread theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WeSjWiVHFw

>> No.10257127

reminder Thule has no albedo and is the color of black coal

all pics will just be of blackness with no definable surface features

>> No.10257152

>>10257127
I thought it was supposed to be red

>> No.10257240

>>10257127
>Thule has no albedo
I thought it just doesn't have a light curve i.e. the albedo doesn't seem to change over time as it rotates.

>> No.10257241

>>10257127
>has no albedo

nigger what, even if it was 0, it still has an albedo, its not null.

>> No.10257267

>>10256592
6 hours for the images to arrive

>> No.10257273

>>10257127
That’d make it invisible you dumb cunt.

>> No.10257299

reminder that space shit is irrelevant to humanity as we will never achieve interplanetary colonization anyway nor discover ET's nor reach any significant understanding of the universe and we're really doing is waste billions of dollars on useless data and a couple of pictures no one cares about

>> No.10257314

>>10257241
>nigger what, even if it was 0, it still has an albedo, its not null.
fellow data scientist?

>> No.10258444

>>10257267
Not with the time dilalation.

>> No.10258447

>>10256592
It was launched after 9/11, and it's going really fast, it's a zoomer not a boomer.

>> No.10258529

>>10256649
No ions on this badboy

>> No.10258554

>>10256592
I think you may have forgot to add a couple meme labels. Is that how you talk in real life?

>> No.10258620

>>10256592
Ultima Thule is orders of magnitude too small to even be considered a potential dwarf planet.

>> No.10258676

>>10256592
>new horizons is a based and redpilled boomer that can't tell the difference between pluto and charon

>> No.10260195
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10260195

space benis confirmed

>> No.10260209

>>10256592
lol you fags love looking at photoshop renders don't you?

>> No.10260244

>>10258444
What's time dilalulation?

>> No.10260247

>>10260244
It's when you shove something similar to Ultima Thule in shape into a black hole to prevent space-time continuum from closing.

>> No.10260257

>4 hours till images of ayys laughing at our dinky "space craft" get seen by autistic /sci/ guys
perfect way to start out the new year

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10260274

>>10257299
Afraid of asteroid mining crashing out your monopoly hold on precious metals and diamonds, Chaim?

>> No.10260278

>>10256592
What is Ultima Thule.
The wiki says it's an "unknown region of space" but it's just a hunk of rock right?

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10260292

It'll be another day till we can actually see this bad boy.