MU69 appears as a bi-lobed baby comet in latest New Horizons images | The Planetary Society
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2019/mu69-baby-comet-contact-binary.html

The tiny world 2014 MU69 is far behind New Horizons now and no longer visible to its cameras. Now, New Horizons’ task is to return its precious data to Earth. The process will take 20 months, but the best images should all arrive between now and the end of February. Some early ones have come down from the spacecraft in the hours since the flyby. These are not the best we will get, but they already show us much about MU69: this is probably what comets look like, before they become comets.

This is a textbook example of a contact binary. Binary means two objects, of course, and contact means that they’re in contact with each other. Separated binaries are very common in the solar system and especially common in the Kuiper belt. But how can a contact binary form? Is it even plausible for two mutually orbiting bodies to somehow come together so gently and just stick to each other while preserving their originally round shape over billions of years?

A first processing between the best image released in black and white and color...
It seems to see a crater in the lower left corner on the lobe Ultima!!

Alan Stern
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Planetary science fans-- I think you definitely want to tune in to our press conference about Ultima Thule today, 2 pm Eastern. Just one thing, before you do, fasten your seat belts!

Dalsi a lepsi fotky Ultimy Thule dnes a zitra ve 20:00 naseho casu, kdy budou dalsi tiskovky NASA.

Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2 p.m. EST: New Horizons #UltimaThule Science Results Briefing from Johns Hopkins APL
Thursday, Jan. 3, 2 p.m. EST: New Horizons #UltimaThule Science Results Briefing from Johns Hopkins APL

NASA Live | NASA
https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

NASA reveals how a 'sun angel' appeared over Sweden | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5227053/NASA-reveals-sun-angel-appeared-Sweden.html

Spectacular sun halo seen in Sweden & Norway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR8YU54n1wM

XCHAOS: Kdyz uz si chces to lejno dal rozmazavat, tak alespon poradne cti.

1. nikdo nerika, ze retlanslace je blbost. Ale ze mit jednu sondu na pul cesty je blbost, jak si tu prohlasoval.
2. nikde nepisu "nemozne", ale pisu ze je to casove a financne nesmyslne.

Priklad co mas aktualne dostupne za sirku nakladu:

Delta IV Heavy - az 7.2m (28 790 kg na LEO)
Falcon Heavy - az 5.2m (63 800 kg na LEO)

Aby jsi postavil tu (tebou prohlasovany za jednoduchou) "mamuti antenu", tak musis:
- Mit antenu slozenou aby se vesla do soucasnych limitu raket a nasledne se po startu rozlozi. Takhle to resi teleskop Jamese Webba a je to velmi narocne, stoji hodne prace a penez aby vse bylo poradne udelane a otestovane (a pak staci jedina chybicka a vsechno muzes zahodit)

- Poslat to nahoru po kusech a tam to skladat. Tohle je podle me jeste drazsi. Sice tu antenu vyrobis levneji, ale skladani na obezne draze bude hodne narocne. Neni aktualne zadna lod ktera posadku prepravi na "stavbu" a da jim podporu zivota na dost dlouho, aby stihli udelat "hodne prace". Vyzadovalo by to mnoho startu, kde by to postupne budovali a tohle by bylo na montaz o dost slozitejsi, nez bylo budovani ISS.

Jasne sirce pasma mozna rozumis, ale vypadato, ze to je tak vsechno.

.o) radost z pixelů

This sequence of three images, received on Dec. 31, 2018, and taken by the LORRI camera onboard New Horizons at 70 and 85 minutes apart illustrates the rotation of Ultima Thule.
Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

PER2: Jsi mě předběhl :)

tisková konference bude za 15 minut
Live coverage: New Horizons sails past Ultima Thule, phones home – Spaceflight Now
https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/12/30/new-horizons-ultima-thule-mission-status-center/