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The official definition of a “planet” could be set to change again soon. Last time that happened, Pluto was kicked out of the club, but the new proposed definition is designed to be more inclusive.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Planet, D… Continue reading The official definition of a planet could soon change again
When I was a kid, the solar system was simple. There were nine planets and they all orbited in more-or-less circles around the sun. This same sun-and-a-handful-of-planets scheme repeated itself …read more Continue reading The Solar System is Weirder Than You Think
Not every talk at the Chaos Communication Congress is about hacking computers. In this outstanding and educational talk, [Michael Büker] walks us through the history of our understanding of the …read more Continue reading 37C3: You Think It’s Bad With Pluto? A History of the Planets
The future of NASA’s New Horizons interstellar probe as it speeds out of the solar system, never to return, is a bit more secure after the space agency announced a new extended mission plan that includes another possible Kuiper Belt object flyby.Contin… Continue reading New Horizons gets a new lease on life and a possible flyby mission
In 2015 NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft provided humanity with the first up-close views of Pluto, passing just 12,472 km (7,750 mi) from the surface. What had always been little more …read more Continue reading Change of Plans for New Horizons Sparks Debate
Astronomers claim to have discovered evidence of huge ice volcanoes that have changed the surface of Pluto relatively recently. Data and images gathered by the New Horizons mission revealed surface structures that seem to have been produced by a phenom… Continue reading Giant ice volcanoes may have recently changed the face of Pluto
If you don’t care about shortwave frequencies, the PlutoSDR is a great deal. The device is supposed to be an evaluation board for Analog Device’s radio chips, but it does …read more Continue reading Pluto Spectrum Analyzer Uses Command Line
A few years ago, astronomers discovered a bizarre object named ‘Oumuamua, which not only defied conventional classification but was the first thing found to be from another star system. Now, researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) have proposed a… Continue reading ‘Oumuamua likely a nitrogen iceberg from an “exo-Pluto” says new study
Many of the SDR projects we see use a cheap USB dongle. They are great, but sometimes you want more and — especially — sometimes you want to transmit. The Analog Devices ADALM-Pluto SDR is easily available for $200 and sometimes as low as $100 and it both transmits and …read more
Continue reading Pluto Might Not be a Planet, but it is an SDR Transceiver
Well over 100 new minor planets have been discovered in our solar system, in the darkness out beyond the orbit of Neptune. The discoveries were made by sifting through several years’ worth of data gathered by the Dark Energy Survey (DES), and applying … Continue reading Almost 140 new minor planets spotted in the outer solar system