Hank asks John to put a New Horizons picture of Pluto in his Tuesday video (2015)
ask · status: reported back · last event: result reported (2015-07-21) · owner: Hank
In July 2015 Hank asked John to put a picture from New Horizons, which was about to make its closest approach to Pluto, in his Tuesday video. John later answered with images of Pluto in a P.S. to his video of 21 July.
About: New Horizons, Pluto
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-07-10 | asked | Hank asks John to put a picture from New Horizons' Tuesday closest approach to Pluto in his Tuesday video. (hedged) | How to Get to Pluto: From a Waterpark 00:03:08 |
| 2015-07-21 | result reported | In a P.S., John is sorry about Hank's VidCon stress and offers comfort in images of Pluto, a cold, distant former planet humans came together to understand. | PAPER TOWNS IS HERE AND JOHN IS A BALL OF ANXIETY 00:03:27 |
What is said about it
6 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2015-07-10 · How to Get to Pluto: From a Waterpark — Hank says that very soon there will be, for the first time, pictures of Pluto that are not horribly blurry. — 00:00:06
- 2015-07-10 · How to Get to Pluto: From a Waterpark — Hank: New Horizons, launched in 2006, has traveled for nine years; besides instruments like spectrographs and cameras it carries the ashes of Pluto's discoverer Clyde Tombaugh. — 00:00:14
- 2015-07-10 · How to Get to Pluto: From a Waterpark — Hank: Anticipating comment debates, Hank says Pluto is not a planet, and that the reason is also why he is excited about the mission: Pluto is weird. — 00:00:30
- 2015-07-10 · How to Get to Pluto: From a Waterpark — Hank: Pluto has 5 moons, among the weirdest in the Solar System; 2 were unknown before New Horizons launched, and unknown moons could crash the probe, ending the mission without data. — 00:01:35
- 2015-07-10 · How to Get to Pluto: From a Waterpark — Hank: New Horizons is over 4.5 billion km away; it left Earth's orbit faster than any object before, got a speed boost from Jupiter, and cannot slow down, so it will fly past Pluto into the Kuiper belt. (doubtful: more than 4.5 billion kilometers) — 00:02:16
- 2015-07-10 · How to Get to Pluto: From a Waterpark — Hank: New Horizons cannot take pictures and transmit at once, so it will photograph during next week's (week of 13 July 2015) approach; transmission slower than an early-90s modem means months to receive all the data. — 00:02:37