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		lisper on Jan 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New Horizons’ first hi-res imagery of Ultima Thule You'd think, but no, that's not actually how it's done. See e.g.: http://dnc.tamu.edu/drjunkins/yearwise/2000/conference/AIAA_... https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/9069467.pdf for some state-of-the-art research on this topic.

garmaine on Jan 4, 2019 [–]

Actually, in the case of New Horizons, it is. Mission navigators use LORRI images of known objects relative to the background stars to calibrate their position.

lisper on Jan 4, 2019 | [–]

OK, I stand corrected.

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