Rosetta flyby of Asteroid Lutetia |
Rosetta flyby of Asteroid Lutetia |
Dec 26 2009, 07:35 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
time to start a thread on one of the most interesting UMSF events of 2010...
Published thu on arXiv Ultraviolet and visible photometry of asteroid (21) Lutetia using the Hubble Space Telescope |
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Dec 28 2009, 09:48 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
Actually the class of Lutetia is disputed, and it now seems more likely that it resembles some types of carbonaceous meteorites
these are some papers summarizing the results in support of the Rosetta flyby: Asteroids 2867 Steins and 21 Lutetia: surface composition from far infrared observations with the Spitzer space telescope Surface properties of Rosetta's targets (21) Lutetia and (2867) Steins from ESO observations New visible spectra and mineralogical assessment of (21) Lutetia, a target of the Rosetta mission |
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