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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May 31 2010, 03:02 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 |
There are two very interesting papers on adaptive optics observations of Lutetia on arXiv today:
Physical properties of ESA/NASA Rosetta target asteroid (21) Lutetia: Shape and flyby geometry The triaxial ellipsoid dimensions, rotational pole, and bulk density of ESA/NASA Rosetta target asteroid (21) Lutetia turns out Lutetia spins on its side like Uranus, and one entire hemisphere will not be illuminated when Rosetta swings by. As for the shape, QUOTE asteroid (21) Lutetia is well described by a wedge of Camembert cheese (justifying the Parisian name of Lutetia) |
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