Rosetta flyby of Asteroid Steins, 5th September 2008 |
Rosetta flyby of Asteroid Steins, 5th September 2008 |
Jun 19 2008, 06:53 AM
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Only 78 days to Stein encounter ! I can't believe I forgot about this event.
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Aug 18 2008, 09:17 AM
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Ones I can think of
Galileo did Gaspera, then Ida & Dactly (that's only one flyby though - Dactyl was just gravy ) NEAR did Maltide then EROS, then orbited Eros Stardust did Annefrank DS1 did Braille ( although that didn't go well ) 6 proper planned ones then I think. Technically, NH did 132524_APL, and Cassini did Masursky - but they're more of a distant encounter rather than flybys. |
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Aug 25 2008, 03:47 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Ones I can think of... This is a bit late of a reply because of my vacation, but I'll point out my post here, which shows the 7 asteroid systems (8 bodies total) and 4 comets that have been imaged to date. And don't forget Vega 1 and Giotto also imaged Halley. So depending on how you add things up you can come up with anywhere from 11 to 14 "encounters." A number of people have requested a single-image version of my scale montage -- I have that together and will post it this week as soon as I round up the image credits. --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Aug 25 2008, 04:07 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1592 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
A number of people have requested a single-image version of my scale montage -- I have that together and will post it this week as soon as I round up the image credits I thought it was awesome, too. I had no idea that Mathilde was the biggest of the bunch, the quality of the Galileo images is particularly deceiving... would have bet they were bigger. One with Phobos and Deimos would also be interesting. I just looked at the stats and was surprised to see the Phobos is also smaller than Mathilde. And I knew Itokawa was small, but indeed I had a poor conception of scale there versus Eros. |
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