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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Shakaar: [qb] I'm uncertain how much I'm for this mission, sure Pluto is the only... Really big comet, or small planetoid we've not sent a probe past... I think I'd rather see us send an orbital satelite to another world instead, such as a modified weather satelite to Jupiter or Saturn.... Something that could stay there and remain in orbit to look around for a period of years, something that could send back first hand video of impacts, or anything else that goes on. The probe is going to whiz past Pluto so quickly it will only serve to give us the wee-est of glances as it flies by. [/qb][/QUOTE]We cant really do that for lots of reasons- mostly the billions of uncharted rocks, pebbles and boulders in Jupiter, and it's various moon's orbits. Jupiter acts like a vaccum cleaner for our solar system- constantly pulling in comets and asterpods that would otherwise dive further into the inner planet's orbits. Good for us, bad for figuring out stable orbits for a lot of the changing orbits in the "Jovian System". Even stuff like Cassini stays well away from this enourmous gravity well -and it's been mostly good luck that the probes we've sent into atmoshere there were not intercepted by anything first. Really, it's incredible how much [i]good[/i] luck the various space programs have enjoyed- just last night there was (on the Science CHannel) an intresting decumentary on how the Apollo astronauts had no clue if they would be exposed to serious levels of cosmic rays (as solar mapping was at best, in it's infantcy back then). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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