May 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993disc...14...68s&link_type=abstract
Discover (ISSN 0274-7529), vol. 14, no. 5, p. 68-76.
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Pluto, Popular, Physical Properties, Mission Planning, Pff Mission, Science Aspects, Atmosphere, History, Techniques, Orbits, Satellites, Charon, Pluto-Charon System, Earth-Based Observations, Binary Systems, Telescope Methods, Motion, Composition, Surface, Polar Regions, Frost, Equipment, Spacecraft, Technical Aspects, Trajectory, Flyby Missions, Misson Description
Scientific paper
The paper discusses Pluto Fast Flyby, a low-cost high-audacity mission considered by NASA, Flyby, consisting of twin spacecraft that will rendezvous with Pluto within one year from each other, to observe the planet and its moon, Charon. The instruments proposed for the spacecraft include a visible camera, a mapping IR spectrometer, a UV spectrometer, and a radio transmitter to beam the findings home. It is emphasized that the Pluto Fast Flyby spacecraft must be launched before the end of this decade and then beat a direct trajectory to Pluto in six or eight years, in order to arrive before Pluto's atmosphere of methane and nitrogen freezes and falls on the planet's surface as a 'snow', due to the fact that Pluto is presently moving away from the sun on its highly elliptical 248-yr orbit.
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