Deep Impact Realtime Thread |
Deep Impact Realtime Thread |
 Jul 4 2005, 04:52 AM
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Well - impactor TCM 1 went well - <0.3% error and it's on course for a nominal impact time. PI has suggested that the comet is Banana shaped and we're going to hit the end of it which looks a little triangular
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Jul 4 2005, 07:55 AM
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http://www.spaceflightnow.com/deepimpact/050704faulkes.html
The Faulkes Telescope in Hawaii captured these before (left) and after images that show the comet increases in brightness following the impact. Credit: Faulkes Telescope Project. |
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djellison Deep Impact Realtime Thread Jul 4 2005, 04:52 AM
djellison A rather rough and ready HRI picture on NASA TV - ... Jul 4 2005, 05:09 AM djellison TCM 2 is in progress - estimated to be 40ish secon... Jul 4 2005, 05:19 AM hendric Sounds like someone was concerned about microradia... Jul 4 2005, 05:20 AM hendric Somebody just got up and ran off..."I told yo... Jul 4 2005, 05:21 AM djellison I assume this is the calculated pointing error for... Jul 4 2005, 05:22 AM hendric Figures...Nasa TV is showing images of the HRI. ... Jul 4 2005, 05:23 AM deglr6328 Did I get that right? They're doing (near) rea... Jul 4 2005, 05:24 AM hendric Yep. On their laptops, no less. I guess Mike... Jul 4 2005, 05:28 AM djellison Yup "Two days"...lmfao - 60 seconds
Do... Jul 4 2005, 05:31 AM hendric holy...I thought the tv camera defocused, but thos... Jul 4 2005, 05:36 AM djellison For those with access - Sky News is carrying NTV a... Jul 4 2005, 05:36 AM djellison Last TCM calculations suggest again, 2ish m/sec
D... Jul 4 2005, 05:38 AM deglr6328 Final ITM (ITM 3) occurs in <3 min. As I unders... Jul 4 2005, 05:39 AM hendric "Near real time" my butt. The Image Vie... Jul 4 2005, 05:44 AM
Bob Shaw Good images of the nucleus - looks like a bent Enc... Jul 4 2005, 06:07 AM Bob Shaw A screengrab of the nucleus: Jul 4 2005, 06:15 AM djellison FInal burn manouver complete - accurate to within ... Jul 4 2005, 05:45 AM deglr6328 Final TCM burn error less than 1/4 of a %!... Jul 4 2005, 05:45 AM djellison 10 seconds to go Jul 4 2005, 05:51 AM djellison Loss of Signal Jul 4 2005, 05:52 AM djellison WOoooooooooooooooooooooooooo - the pictures
Doug Jul 4 2005, 05:52 AM djellison Wow - this is like ranger - amazing images coming... Jul 4 2005, 05:53 AM deglr6328 WOW! lovely!! they look far closer t... Jul 4 2005, 05:53 AM hendric Is that a crack?? My bet is for rubble pile!... Jul 4 2005, 05:55 AM djellison Is it wrong that I was celebrating WAYYY before th... Jul 4 2005, 05:57 AM deglr6328 It's perfect! Perfectly centered in the im... Jul 4 2005, 05:59 AM alan "doing very well for a spaceraft about to be ... Jul 4 2005, 06:03 AM lyford Doh - party's over here now.... Jul 4 2005, 06:03 AM djellison Just taking photographs of my TV here - with Sky N... Jul 4 2005, 06:04 AM lyford more here
http://www.scotsons-shack.com/dimages.h... Jul 4 2005, 06:05 AM lyford kitt peak working now
Kitt Peak Live Feed Jul 4 2005, 06:07 AM hendric Deep Impact II to hit an Asteroid? Jul 4 2005, 06:10 AM deglr6328 Sub-meter res images just before impact seem to sh... Jul 4 2005, 06:13 AM hendric Consdering they're compensating for a really l... Jul 4 2005, 06:14 AM djellison MRI of the impact.
I just have to go 'BOOOOoo... Jul 4 2005, 06:20 AM Bob Shaw Medium resolution image of the impact: Jul 4 2005, 06:25 AM Bob Shaw Doug:
Gonna send the Deep Impact Team a 'Gold... Jul 4 2005, 06:27 AM Sunspot Any reports of observations from the ground? Jul 4 2005, 06:21 AM lyford mirror of the pre impact animation from kitt peak
... Jul 4 2005, 06:27 AM Bob Shaw The final flyby picture before the 'hiding fro... Jul 4 2005, 06:32 AM garybeau The best 4th of July fireworks I ever witnessed. C... Jul 4 2005, 06:37 AM djellison The realtime image pages are healthily updated, bu... Jul 4 2005, 06:59 AM volcanopele Try:
http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~perry/image... Jul 4 2005, 07:01 AM alan impact images now available on near real time imag... Jul 4 2005, 07:37 AM Jyril Faulkes Telescope images can be found here. Jul 4 2005, 07:56 AM deglr6328 Pre and post (~20 minutes) images from the Faulkes... Jul 4 2005, 08:04 AM jaredGalen What time GMT is the press conference on?
I don... Jul 4 2005, 08:09 AM dvandorn Now it's off of "Momentarily" and ba... Jul 4 2005, 08:11 AM jaredGalen QUOTE (jaredGalen @ Jul 4 2005, 09:09 AM)Edit... Jul 4 2005, 08:12 AM jaredGalen WOOOHOOO!!! Jul 4 2005, 08:13 AM jaredGalen Wow, more hits than Cassini and MER combined!
... Jul 4 2005, 08:15 AM Sunspot I think it should have started 10 minutes ago.
... Jul 4 2005, 08:11 AM Jyril It should start at any time now. They're havin... Jul 4 2005, 08:11 AM Jyril Here's a blog from Planetary Society for those... Jul 4 2005, 08:26 AM Tman Someone did a nice animation on web:
http://pla... Jul 4 2005, 08:50 AM abalone Still image from impactor. Impact point is in cent... Jul 4 2005, 09:08 AM Decepticon Did anyone get the reaction of the Deep Impact Tea... Jul 4 2005, 12:03 PM Marcel Before and after by Hubble
http://deepimpact.jpl.... Jul 4 2005, 12:52 PM ilbasso I heard the rep from ESA say that Rosetta was also... Jul 4 2005, 01:55 PM Tman There is an QT movie that shows most approach so f... Jul 4 2005, 03:30 PM volcanopele QUOTE (Tman @ Jul 4 2005, 08:30 AM)There is a... Jul 4 2005, 03:52 PM djellison It may be that it started to tumble / wobble with ... Jul 4 2005, 03:35 PM Jyril QUOTE (djellison @ Jul 4 2005, 06:35 PM)It ma... Jul 4 2005, 03:47 PM Jyril The hubble image posted earlier has been updated w... Jul 4 2005, 03:45 PM volcanopele http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~perry/images/impac... Jul 4 2005, 04:04 PM Tman wow, you found likely the right impact spot! I... Jul 4 2005, 04:25 PM jaredGalen
Looks Like your spot on.
I overlayed the closeup ... Jul 4 2005, 05:59 PM jaredGalen In fact the last one seems to fit in too here.
Thi... Jul 4 2005, 06:11 PM Decepticon Cool animations!
This is a great press confe... Jul 4 2005, 06:24 PM djellison 1600GMT Press Conf Highlights
Web Hits : Last 24... Jul 4 2005, 06:25 PM Decepticon Are raw images available yet? Jul 4 2005, 06:31 PM alan Found a couple more matches in Tman's image Jul 4 2005, 06:36 PM jaredGalen QUOTE (alan @ Jul 4 2005, 07:36 PM)Found a co... Jul 4 2005, 06:48 PM Sunspot It doesn't look like there are any plans for a... Jul 4 2005, 06:48 PM MizarKey I loved the animated sequence showing the crater f... Jul 4 2005, 06:49 PM volcanopele I'm still finding it hard to believe think of ... Jul 4 2005, 07:01 PM Phil Stooke Here I've tinkered with the brightness to see ... Jul 4 2005, 09:10 PM MiniTES Let me get this straight: they're not sure if ... Jul 4 2005, 10:06 PM john_s QUOTE (MiniTES @ Jul 4 2005, 10:06 PM)Let me ... Jul 4 2005, 10:13 PM MiniTES QUOTE (john_s @ Jul 4 2005, 10:13 PM)I don... Jul 4 2005, 10:20 PM MiniTES Trying to make sure I understand the geometry of t... Jul 4 2005, 11:35 PM Decepticon I though we would get better lookback images for m... Jul 5 2005, 12:10 AM Phil Stooke MiniTES, the brightest spot in the lookback image ... Jul 5 2005, 12:40 AM BruceMoomaw Actually, the scientific seriousness of the HRI fo... Jul 5 2005, 01:48 AM tedstryk Were the images taken after impact monochrome or m... Jul 5 2005, 02:23 AM MiniTES QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Jul 5 2005, 01:48 AM)...... Jul 5 2005, 02:38 AM BruceMoomaw To Ted: both the HRI and MRI images were multispec... Jul 5 2005, 02:40 AM MiniTES QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Jul 5 2005, 02:40 AM)To ... Jul 5 2005, 02:46 AM MiniTES I also think NASA could have milked the publicity ... Jul 5 2005, 03:07 AM BruceMoomaw To "Mini-TES": actually, your second sou... Jul 5 2005, 04:19 AM BruceMoomaw As for an extended mission to a second comet; I ca... Jul 5 2005, 04:21 AM BruceMoomaw And as for the impact being precisely on July 4 (w... Jul 5 2005, 04:29 AM BruceMoomaw And here, finally, is the only additional data I w... Jul 5 2005, 05:14 AM BruceMoomaw And here's a third one, which is useful in bei... Jul 5 2005, 05:23 AM slinted Bruce:
The pds site with the calibration data has... Jul 5 2005, 05:59 AM BruceMoomaw Splendid! Thanks. Jul 5 2005, 03:59 PM Tman Maybe you want to get a deeper look at the impact ... Jul 5 2005, 05:02 PM alan What small mound? Jul 5 2005, 05:17 PM |
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