Space News From SpaceDaily.Com (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 07, 2008 - This week the New Horizons mission team celebrates the 30th anniversary of the discovery of Pluto's largest and first moon, Charon, by U.S. Naval Observatory astronomers James Christy and Robert Harrington.
What About Clients? (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
Charon QC, London's well-regarded lawyer-pundit, has a fine review of last week's news and Brit blogs. "Blogging" may not be ground central for All Things Legal or Otherwise on the Planet. Time is precious to busy people; as a friend...
Cosmic Log (Free subscription) | 02/20/2008
STScI / NASA Pluto and its satellite Charon are the larger objects in this Hubble Space Telescope image. Two even smaller satellites, Nix and Hydra, can be seen to the right. How do you define a planet? Officials at the International Astronomical Union thought the matter was settled more than a year ago when it drew up a definition of planethood that separated little Pluto from its eight bigger siblings...
Stranger Fruit (Free subscription) | 01/26/2008
This is what Pluto and Charon look like from 3,600,000,000 kilometers. The picture was snapped by NASA’s New Horizons probe which expects to flyby the planet in 2015. Expected future highpoints for the mission are: June 9, 2008 -- Pass Saturn's orbit. March 5, 2011 -- Pass Uranus’ orbit. August 1, 2014 -- Pass Neptune’s orbit. July 14, 2015 -- Flyby of Pluto around 11:59 UTC at 11096 km, 13.780 km/s...
Binary Law (Free subscription) | 11/07/2007
Bigger even than Jupiter. Comet Holmes is exploding and its coma, a cloud of gas and dust illuminated by the sun, has grown to be bigger than the planet Jupiter. Meanwhile Pluto’s moon Charon is a mere 1,210 kilometers across.
