New Horizons Probe
Main Mission: PLUTO
To The Edge … of our Solar System
Blast Off – January 21, 2006
Flyby Pluto – July 14, 2015
9 years, 5 months, 29 days
36,000 miles/hour
Passed moon in 9 hours
Pluto
3.6 billion miles from sun
3 billion miles from Earth
THE PREEMINENCE
OF CHRIST
Colossians 1:15-23
THE PREEMINENCE OF CHRIST
• In Relation To God (Col. 1:15)
• Hebrews 1:3 (NKJV) — 3 who being the
brightness of His glory and the express
image of His person, and upholding all
things by the word of His power …
• John 1:1–2 (NKJV) — 1 In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. 2 He was in the
beginning with God.
THE PREEMINENCE OF CHRIST
• In Relation To God (Col. 1:15)
• In Relation To Creation (Col. 1:16-17)
• John 1:3 (NKJV) — 3 All things were made
through Him, and without Him nothing was
made that was made.
• Hebrews 1:2 (NKJV) — 2 has in these last
days spoken to us by His Son, whom He
has appointed heir of all things, through
whom also He made the worlds;
• Psalm 8:3–4 (NKJV) — 3 When I consider
Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have
ordained, 4 What is man that You are
mindful of him, And the son of man that You
visit him?
• Psalm 19:1–3 (NKJV) — 1 The heavens
declare the glory of God; And the
firmament shows His handiwork. 2 Day unto
day utters speech, And night unto night
reveals knowledge. 3 There is no speech
nor language Where their voice is not
heard.
8 Planets
Plus “demoted” Pluto
1. Mercury
2. Venus
3. Earth
4. Mars
5. Jupiter
6. Saturn
7. Uranus
8. Neptune
Pluto (dwarf)
10,000 degrees Fahrenheit
1,000,000 earths would fit in it
92,960,000 miles from sun
Jupiter
Fifth planet
64 moons
12 earth years to orbit sun
317 earths to fill it up
483,800,000 miles from sun
Saturn
Sixth planet
29.4 years to orbit sun
150 moons
764 earths could fit in it
1 day = 10 hours 32 minutes
890,700,000 miles from sun
Pluto
1,473 miles in diameter
5 moons
246 years to orbit sun
Milky Way
Measure in Light Years
Speed of Light = 186,000 miles/second
5.88 trillion miles/year
Quarter = Our Solar System
United States = Our Galaxy
2,500 years to count one star per second
Sombrero Galaxy
28 million light years away
(i.e. 28 million x 5.88 trillion miles)
Whirlpool Galaxy
31 million light years
Hundreds of billions of stars
THE PREEMINENCE OF CHRIST
• In Relation To God (Col. 1:15)
• In Relation To Creation (Col. 1:16-17)
• In Relation To The Church (Col. 1:18)
• In Relation To All Things (Col. 1:19-23)