Page 12 July 26, 2012 TORRANCE TRIBUNE Looking Up Hubble Discovers a Fifth Moon Orbiting Pluto By Bobeklund flyby of the distant world. The team is using 1, the latest moon was detected A team of astronomers using the Hubble Hubble’s powerful vision to scour the Pluto in nine separate sets of images Space Telescope is reporting the discovery system to uncover potential hazards to the taken by Hubble’s Wide Field of another moon orbiting the icy dwarf New Horizons spacecraft. Moving past the Camera 3 on June 26, 27, 29, planet Pluto. dwarf planet at a speed of 30,000 miles per and July 3 and 9. The moon is estimated to be irregular in hour, New Horizons could be destroyed in In the years following the New shape and six to 15 miles across. It is in a a collision with even a BB-shot-size piece Horizons Pluto flyby, astronomers 58,000-mile-diameter circular orbit around of orbital debris. plan to use the infrared vision Pluto that is assumed to be co-planar with “The discovery of so many small moons of Hubble’s planned successor, the other satellites in the system. “The indirectly tells us that there must be lots of NASA’s James Webb Space Tele- moons form a series of neatly nested orbits, small particles lurking unseen in the Pluto scope, for follow-up observations. a bit like Russian dolls,” said team lead system,” said Harold Weaver of the Johns The Webb telescope will be able to Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in Hopkins University Applied Physics Labora- measure the surface chemistry of Mountain View, California. The discovery tory in Laurel, Maryland. Pluto, its moons and many other increases the number of known moons “The inventory of the Pluto system we’re bodies that lie beyond Pluto in orbiting Pluto to five. taking now with Hubble will help the New the distant Kuiper Belt. The Pluto team is intrigued that such Horizons team design a safer trajectory for Images: http://en.wikipedia. a small planet can have such a complex the spacecraft,” added Alan Stern of the o r g / w i k i / F i l e : E S O - L . _ collection of satellites. The new discovery Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Cal%C3%A7ada_-_Pluto_(by).jpg provides additional clues for unraveling how Colorado, the mission’s principal investi- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/ the Pluto system formed and evolved. The gator. Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, was archive/releases/2012/32/full/ Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI Institute) favored theory is that all the moons are rel- discovered in 1978 in observations made ics of a collision between Pluto and another at the United States Naval Observatory in SHouLD PLuTo BeA PLAneT? conducted by Web-based magazine Space. large Kuiper belt object billions of years ago. Washington, D.C. Hubble observations in The controversy about whether Pluto com, and you can cast your vote if you like: The new detection will help scientists 2006 uncovered two additional small moons, should be classified as a dwarf planet or a h t t p : / / w w w. s p a c e . c o m / 1 6 5 3 4 - navigate NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft Nix and Hydra. In 2011 another moon, P4, full-fledged planet is nowhere near over—at p o l l - p l u t o - d w a r f - p l a n e t - s t a t u s . through the Pluto system in 2015 when it was found in Hubble data. least as far as the public is concerned. 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