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Sep 27 2007, 12:31 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 100 Joined: 11-October 04 From: Oxford, UK (Glasgow by birth) Member No.: 101 |
Pushing out of Earth orbit now...........
-------------------- "There are 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary code, and those who don't."
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Sep 28 2007, 07:33 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 648 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Subotica Member No.: 384 |
Just as I thought...nobody in the press conference asked question that I am most interested in...
Dawn is going to visit two biggest asteroids Ceres and Vesta. It is going to enter orbit around these two but there was some words before that it can do few close flybys of some small asteroids as well. I guess that planed flybys are all canceled because slips in launch but there should be new ones. Does anybody know if there are any candidates? -------------------- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Jules H. Poincare My "Astrophotos" gallery on flickr... |
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Sep 28 2007, 07:36 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
I guess that planed flybys are all canceled because slips in launch but there should be new ones. IIRC, there never were any planned flybys. It will be determined in flight (based on current trajectory, fuel and ion engine performance) what is feasibly reachable and if it's worth the trouble. One of TPS blog entries mentions something about it as I recall. -------------------- |
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Sep 28 2007, 04:57 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1592 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
IIRC, there never were any planned flybys. It will be determined in flight (based on current trajectory, fuel and ion engine performance) what is feasibly reachable and if it's worth the trouble. One of TPS blog entries mentions something about it as I recall. I recall that as well, nothing was planned or expected until launch. Similar to the New Horizons Jupiter flyby... they didn't plan the launch to coincide with anything but the primary targets.But I am definitely curious to see what they will pass by, and whether the instruments can do useful science on more distant fly-bys.
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