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September 27, 2012 - West Hawaii Today
Gemini’s North telescope played a role in refining information about former planet Pluto and its companion Charon.
In
the process, astronomers continued to improve their abilities to
identify Earth-sized objects, Gemini spokesman Peter Michaud said.
“We’re refining our ability to detect smaller and smaller objects,” Michaud said. “That’s exciting.”
Steve
Howell of the NASA Ames Research Center and his team temporarily
installed a Differential Speckle Survey Instrument on the Gemini
telescope on Mauna Kea. The team focused the instrument on Pluto and
Charon and took a series of images, which were then used to get the
clearest picture yet of the pair taken from Earth.
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