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Planetary Science Goals for the Spitzer Warm Era
Carey Lisse, Mark Sykes, David Trilling +6
The overarching goal of planetary astronomy is to deduce how the present collection of objects found in our Solar System were formed from the original material present in the proto…
Circumstellar Dust Created by Terrestrial Planet Formation in HD 113766
C. M. Lisse, C. H. Chen, M. C. Wyatt +1
We present an analysis of the gas-poor circumstellar material in the HD 113766 binary system (F3/F5, 10 - 16 Myr), recently observed by the Spitzer Space Telescope. For our study w…
The New Horizons Spacecraft
Glen H. Fountain, David Y. Kusnierkiewicz, Christopher B. Hersman +14
The New Horizons spacecraft was launched on 19 January 2006. The spacecraft was designed to provide a platform for seven instruments that will collect and return data from Pluto in…
Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager on New Horizons
A. F. Cheng, H. A. Weaver, S. J. Conard +13
The LOng-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) is the high resolution imaging instrument for the New Horizons mission to Pluto, its giant satellite Charon, its small moons Nix and Hy…
New Horizons: Anticipated Scientific Investigations at the Pluto System
Leslie A. Young, S. Alan Stern, Harold A. Weaver +24
The New Horizons spacecraft will achieve a wide range of measurement objectives at the Pluto system, including color and panchromatic maps, 1.25-2.50 micron spectral images for stu…
Overview of the New Horizons Science Payload
H. A. Weaver, W. C. Gibson, M. B. Tapley +2
The New Horizons mission was launched on 2006 January 19, and the spacecraft is heading for a flyby encounter with the Pluto system in the summer of 2015. The challenges associated…