[Magdalen] pluto pix

[Jay Weigel]

This once-wannabe astronomer has been glued to the news for that and
marveling at the pictures. I never would have dreamed, as a 9-year-old
scanning the heavens, that I would see these pictures in my lifetime.

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Truly extraordinary.  What a time we live in, even more so when one throws
> in Philae, too.
>
> Marion, an astronomy-loving pilgrim
>
> On 7/17/2015 12:06 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
>
>> The news is definitely spectacular. There are game-changing discoveries,
>> and that's just the preliminary findings.  They've found mountains only a
>> few hundred million years old.  Possibly still forming.
>>
>> Read all about it here:
>>
>> https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/charon-s-surprising-youthful-and-varied-terrain
>>
>> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
>> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
>> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>>
>>
>