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 5 2005, 05:14 AM
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And here, finally, is the only additional data I was able to scrounge on Google about the cameras' filter wheels -- A'Hearn's brief descriptions of them:
pds-smallbodies.astro.umd.edu/review/ comets200410/di/ditv_0004/catalog/inst_hrivis.cat pds-smallbodies.astro.umd.edu/review/ comets200410/di/ditv_0004/catalog/inst_mrivis.cat Both are described as having "two clear apertures" in addition to their color filters -- but the MRI is descri bed as having 8 color filters instead of 7. Since the description of the mission in Mini-TES' paper is more recent, it's probably correct in saying that the MRI was reduced to 7 filters. (There is a little more data on the exact nature of the filters in A'Hearn's descriptions, though.) "Mini-TES'" paper is from the June issue of "Space Science Reviews", devoted entirely to this mission. Unfortunately, Hampton's article in that issue describing the MRI filters is not yet on the Web -- but another paper from that issue, on the nature of Tempel 1 itself, is also available already: http://www.beltonspace.com/bsei_web_page_g000007.pdf |
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