Re: New Horizons - Question


Jonathan Silverlight wrote:

> If you do a search for "parallax measurements", you'll find that this
> was seriously considered for the Voyager probes and there have been
> several discussions on Usenet, but it wasn't considered practical.
> I'm disappointed - I've also learned that New Horizons isn't a a good
> platform to look for the Pioneer anomaly :-)

Yes. And of course, the Voyagers were launched before the advent of
a number of modern high precision instruments, such as optical
interferometers, the HST, and Hipparcus. Still, if only a spacecraft at
large distance were up to the task, I think it'd be a prudent thing to
do, just as it would be a good idea to do the same for Pioneer Anomaly
data.

But as we know, it was a major odyssey just getting a probe launched
to Pluto in the first place. It's necessarily been stripped down to the
bone. So it's not surprising it won't be much good outside its box.

-Mark Martin

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