coldest place in solar system..

[makc]

...is on moon:

Temperatures there were measured at 397 degrees below zero. That's just 62 degrees higher than the lowest temperature possible.

(-397) degrees Fahrenheit = 34.8166667 kelvin
(-397) degrees Celsius = -123.85 kelvin

[geckzilla]

Haha, wonder whose fault this is... typographical error... or?

[apodman]

-397 degrees Fahrenheit equals 62.67 degrees Fahrenheit above absolute zero (62.67 Rankines).

And let's not even talk about temperatures lower than absolute zero (like -397 degrees Celsius or minus anything Kelvin).

[makc]

-397 degrees Fahrenheit equals 62.67 degrees Fahrenheit above absolute zero (62.67 Rankines).

I guess that explains it.

[geckzilla]

Mak was the turkey all along!

[makc]

but you've felt for it!

[The Code]

---->>>>but you've felt<<<<--- for it!

Talk about me making mistakes?. Lmao...

Mark

[makc]

me make no mistakes, it are all correct

[geckzilla]

It's ok if I fall for things because I do it and say so many wrong things that it almost doesn't sting at all anymore... almost...

[neufer]

Coldest Place in Solar System: Our Moon
Seth Borenstein, Associated Press, June 18, 2009

<<NASA's new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is making the first complete temperature map of the moon. It found that at the moon's south pole, it's colder than far away Pluto. The area is inside craters that are permanently shadowed so they never see sun.

"It's sort of like a faint glow and that's your only source of heat," said David Paige, a University of California, Los Angeles, scientist who is part of the NASA team. "Right here in our own backyard are definitely the coldest things we've seen in real measurements."

Temperatures there were measured at 397 degrees below zero. That's just 62 degrees higher than the lowest temperature possible. Pluto is at least a degree warmer even though it is about 40 times farther away from the sun.

The coldest temperatures on the moon were usually in craters that were within bigger craters, hiding farther from the sun, Paige said. Three craters where the cold temperatures were noted were Faustini, Shoemaker and Haworth. And some of the coldest places are so remote and unexplored they don't even have names yet, he said.

Soon, the moon's south pole will slightly warm up with the change of seasons and the north pole will get chillier, he said.>>

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But Pluto's polar winter nights are about a century long
during which the only sun light is reflected off of Charon.

We'll see what New Horizons measures thermally on the far side:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto

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Pluto surface temp.
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59 Rankines  min
79 Rankines  mean
99 Rankines  max
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