Will be starting live coverage of the Pluto Flyby after 8 hours. 11 hours left. 

The closest flyby of Pluto is actually less than 8 hours away, rather than the near 12 hours I have been reporting. This is because, the first signals post-flyby will be received 4 hours after the flyby, due to the long-distance communications required (check out yesterday's post, One more day..). NASA is publicizing the whole … Continue reading Fun Fact →

Pluto is 2370 km in diameter, making it the largest known Kuiper Belt Object known. This is somewhat larger than prior estimates. This is one of the first milestones than New Horizons has accomplished on its long and exciting journey to the outer solar system. The size of Pluto had been a mystery ever since … Continue reading Pluto’s bigger than we thought →

12 more hours left until History is made. 

Charon, a majestic world in its own right. It is by far Pluto's largest moon. It has half the radius of Pluto itself! This thing is so massive compared to its host than other moons of other objects that the Center of Gravity in the Pluto-Charon system lies outside Pluto! They appear to be in … Continue reading Charon →

Its the first flyby of a distant Outer Solar System body for the first time since 1989, when Voyager 2 flew past Neptune, providing us with the first glimpses of the Sapphire colored Planet. It is also the first flyby of an object in the Kuiper Belt and the first flyby of Pluto itself. Tomorrow … Continue reading It’s time for Pluto nonstop.. →

At this time tomorrow, New Horizons will have had made its closest fly-by of the dwarf planet Pluto. An interesting thing to note is that New Horizons is 31.89 AU from the Earth! One AU is basically the measure of the average distance of the Earth from the sun, i.e., approximately 1.5*10^11 meters. Light travels … Continue reading One more day.. →

An excerpt from the biography of Clyde Tombaugh. Clyde Tombaugh was born on February 4th 1906 in Streater, Illinois. He is best known for discovering the dwarf planet (then considered planet) Pluto. He also discovered many asteroids.He started building telescopes since the age of 20, and was granted a job by the Lowell observatory for his … Continue reading The Man Who Discovered Pluto →

This is supposed to be a picture of the Plutonian moon Hydra.. Can't say I can recognize which one of the three dots it is. Maybe all three are Pluto's moons..