New Horizons zooms toward Ultima Thule: 05:33 am

[todick]

A NASA spaceship is zooming toward the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever photographed by humankind, a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule some four billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) away.

The US space agency will ring in the New Year with a live online broadcast to mark historic flyby of the mysterious object in a dark and frigid region of space known as the Kuiper Belt at 12:33 am January 1 (0533 GMT Tuesday).

About a billion miles beyond Pluto, a spacecraft is closing in on an icy minor planet — a mysterious little place that's only about 20 miles across.

[Demonperformer]

7 hours ago, todick said:

The US space agency will ring in the New Year with a live online broadcast

Is this still happening? I read somewhere that the money problems in the US govt meant that it would not ... Oh well, only just over an hour until I find out ...

[Macavity]

I DO sometimes "feel for" NASA! Yet (for a national agency) the information
on "location of publicity"...  timing of broadcasts can be surprisingly poor?

And indeed often... Who knows? lol ?

P.S. I DO *sympathise* with ALL working scientists who are expected to be 
"sales(wo)men"... Defend themselves against allegations of "fake news" etc.
and remain under continual threat of government cancellation as well! ?

[todick]

Thanks for the reply Nasa was to the second on the count down but should hear in a few hours ( 4 billion miles 12 years )and still better than British rail

regards

[todick]

Nasa waiting for link live nasa tv 3.30 pm uk

[Davey-T]

22 minutes ago, todick said:

Nasa waiting for link live nasa tv 3.30 pm uk

Could you post a link, went round and round in circles following links at NASA but couldn't find it ?

Dave

[Stu]

3 minutes ago, Davey-T said:

Could you post a link, went round and round in circles following links at NASA but couldn't find it ?

Dave

This is the one I looked at Dave:

https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

[Stu]

I couldn't get my head around the Twitter feeds so just searched online.

[todick]

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html

sorry for the delay

regards

[Ruud]

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