Groningen- After traveling for 9 years and more than 5 billion kilometers skims the “New Horizons” spacecraft on Tuesday, July 14th along dwarf planet Pluto.
This historic event gives Infoversum Blaauw Observatory in cooperation with a special show with spectacular images on the giant screen of 630 m2 full dome. The show starts at 19:30.
Never so close to Pluto
Astronomer Marlies of the Weijgaert takes the audience on the journey that New Horizons has traveled through the solar system. On his long journey to Pluto, the spacecraft flew past Jupiter inviting the orbits of Saturn and Uranus has now passed. Already surpass the photos of New Horizons the sharpest Hubble images of Pluto and its five moons.
At closest approach on July 14, the probe only 12,500 kilometers from the surface of the dwarf planet, about as close as a GPS satellite to Earth. As the spacecraft closer approaching, the images provide more detail price of these distant icy and unknown world.
Tickets
The lectures are open to everyone. Tickets are available through www.infoversum.nl or at the box office.
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