Monthly Archives: July 2015

Timeline for New Horizons Pluto encounter (Australian times)

The following are times for the New Horizons encounter with Pluto.

Times shown are Australian Eastern Standard Time

Tuesday July 14th

9:50PM: Spacecraft Closest aproach to Pluto at 12,500KM

10:04PM: Closest aproach to Charon at 28,800KM

10:51PM: New Horizons passes through Pluto’s shadow measuring its atmosphere (if any)

Wednesday July 15:

12:18AM: Spacecraft passes through Charon’s shadow

11:02PM: Reacquire spacecraft signal post encounter

Thursday July 16:

Begin transmission of data from the spacecraft to Earth