Sedna: The Latest of the Outermost Objects in the Solar System

April 26, 2004 C.C. Petersen Leave a comment

You gotta love the Hubble Space Telescope. There it is up there, looking out across the deeps of space and time, spotting shreds of galaxies as they formed some 300,000 to 500,000 years after the Big Bang, and then it turns around and gives us a view of a little shard of a world called … Continue reading Sedna: The Latest of the Outermost Objects in the Solar System →

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On the Road Again

November 14, 2003 C.C. Petersen Leave a comment

The great age of planetary exploration began back in the early 1960s with simple (!) probes to the Moon and Mars. Probably the best-known planetary explorers (to the public, anyway) have been the Vikings to Mars, the Mars Global Surveyor, the Mars Pathfinder, the Voyager missions to the outer planets, and the recently-ended Galileo mission. … Continue reading On the Road Again →

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Sedna: The Latest of the Outermost Objects in the Solar System

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