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The Subaru Seminar is
usually held in Room 104 of the Hilo Base Facility, adjacent
to the main lobby. Everyone is welcome to attend. If you are
interested in giving a seminar, please contact Masayuki
Akiyama by email.
Augast 26, Tuesday at 15:00pm
"New Horizons: The First Exploration of Pluto-Charon and the Kuiper Belt"
Alan Stern (Southwest Research Institute)
and
John Spencer (Lowell Observatory)
New Horizons is a funded NASA mission to make the first reconnaissance
of bodies in the Kuiper Belt. New Horizons is being built to launch in
January 2006. It willl use a Jupiter gravity assist flyby to reach the
Pluto-Charon system in July 2015; following this New Horizons will go on
to make one or more flybys of Kuiper Belt Objects. We will describe the
science and scientific payload that this mission carries, and then go on
to describe the search for suitable Kuiper Belt Object candidates that
we are planning.