2 Pallas, Views from Hubble Options

[tedstryk]

We have seen two resolved views of Pallas on UMSF. One was my processing of the May 2001 snapshot (which missed the PC chip in WFPC/2), and the other was a lone frame published in Russell et al's abstract.

Here they are in respective order




Well, the whole HST rotation sequence has now been released. I plan to have a crack at it, but I have so many irons in the fire, I figured I would post the link so everyone can have at it.

http://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.p...st&id=11115

Happy processing!

[3488]

Thanks Ted,

I tried downloading them but it didn't work.

Are there JPEG, Gif or preferably BMP of the 2 Pallas images?

I assume no moons have been found orbiting the giant asteroid (if so it would be mentioned in the general astronomical press / sites)?

2 Pallas has in my opinion been a bit of a Cinderella regarding the real big asteroids, the largest in the Main Belt if you do not consider 1 Ceres to be an asteroid, rather Dwarf Planet.

I hope the option with DAWN has not been abandoned in December 2018, when 2 Pallas may be reachable during the descending node (assuming primary mission at 4 Vesta & 1 Ceres is successful).

I looks like that there may be two large craters or basins on the right hand image. 2 Pallas will not be boring for sure.

Hopefully 2 Pallas is high on the list of the new WF/PC 3 & repaired ACS?

Once again, thank you very much Ted for the tip off. It is very much appreciated.

Andrew Brown.