Good bye to the week of Pluto, but hello data

Things are only looking more exciting, as more and more data will be made available from New Horizons in the coming days and week.

News from BBC "What have we learned so far?"


With the incredible images that have already been made public, I am looking forward to seeing even more soon. I am guessing that we will get to see many close up images of both Pluto and Charon.

And on top of that, I am scheduled to teach astronomy at school (for the very first time I might add).  I told my teaching partner back in June that we should begin the year with Pluto.  Now, in June, I had no idea what we would find, but I knew that it would be wonderful.  I feel vindicated.

Next week I will be helping to manage the annual QuarkNet cosmic ray teachers workshop at Johns Hopkins University.  I have been involved with QuarkNet for 13 years now, and have taken part in all sorts of activities.  It is a regular event for me now. I'll write more about QuarkNet next week.