Rosetta flyby of Asteroid Lutetia |
Rosetta flyby of Asteroid Lutetia |
 Dec 26 2009, 07:35 PM
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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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Jul 8 2010, 02:23 PM
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They won't actually resolve Lutetia as an object with a shape until hours before closest approach, so while they could technically be posting more approach photos, they wouldn't really look any different from the ones already posted.
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Paolo Rosetta flyby of Asteroid Lutetia Dec 26 2009, 07:35 PM
Patteroast Lutetia will be the largest asteroid visited by a ... Dec 28 2009, 01:47 AM Paolo Actually the class of Lutetia is disputed, and it ... Dec 28 2009, 09:48 AM Paolo A quick recap of facts about Lutetia from "Ro... Dec 29 2009, 10:05 AM Paolo Two papers about Lutetia on arXiv today:
Inhomogen... Mar 10 2010, 06:12 AM stevesliva I just saw a reference to papers by Busarev et al,... Mar 12 2010, 05:46 AM Paolo nhomogeneities on the surface of 21 Lutetia, the a... Apr 17 2010, 10:03 AM Paolo This is interesting: the Ptolemy mass spectrometer... May 1 2010, 08:38 AM
Alan Stern QUOTE (Paolo @ May 1 2010, 08:38 AM) This... Jul 10 2010, 04:38 PM Explorer1 It would have to be faint indeed. If confirmed, th... May 1 2010, 08:44 AM nprev "Exosphere" in this context seems like a... May 1 2010, 09:06 AM Explorer1 I think a good rule of thumb would be: it's an... May 1 2010, 09:38 AM nprev QUOTE (Explorer1 @ May 1 2010, 02:38 AM) ... May 1 2010, 07:36 PM lyford This discussion seems to becoming perilously evoca... May 1 2010, 06:03 PM Hungry4info I think you're right, nprev. We don't see ... May 1 2010, 10:47 PM JGodbaz QUOTE (Hungry4info @ May 2 2010, 10:47 AM... May 2 2010, 10:32 AM Hungry4info Could that be explained by both Earth's rotati... May 2 2010, 12:15 PM Paolo Lutetia flyby navigation to start end of May http:... May 24 2010, 07:24 AM Explorer1 Incidentally, is there a particular method for pro... May 24 2010, 07:57 AM volcanopele I've been going with LOOT-eh-shee-ah. Not sur... May 24 2010, 08:06 AM Paolo QUOTE (volcanopele @ May 24 2010, 10:06 A... May 24 2010, 08:12 AM ElkGroveDan I think Paolo's version is closer, but I'v... May 24 2010, 02:06 PM Stu I'd have thought "Loo-TAY-shee-ah" m... May 24 2010, 02:58 PM ugordan Loo-TEE-shee-ah? May 24 2010, 03:59 PM Bart Well, since it is the Latin name for Paris, I woul... May 24 2010, 06:25 PM cassioli QUOTE (Bart @ May 24 2010, 07:25 PM) Well... Jun 24 2010, 11:28 AM vikingmars [quote Unfortunately looks like you have no ... Jun 24 2010, 01:08 PM nprev Okay, I'll play: "Loo-TEE-sha". May 24 2010, 06:50 PM jekbradbury The Wikipedia article says it's /ljuː... May 24 2010, 06:58 PM nprev Beginning to appreciate the IAU's asteroid num... May 24 2010, 07:13 PM Paolo There are two very interesting papers on adaptive ... May 31 2010, 03:02 PM dilo QUOTE (Paolo @ May 31 2010, 03:02 PM) The... Jun 18 2010, 06:28 AM charborob Rosetta has started imaging Lutetia. Not much to s... Jun 17 2010, 04:17 PM tasp Can't see the moons or rings or volcanoes yet ... Jun 17 2010, 08:51 PM Mongo Both German and Italian use the letter Z to repres... Jun 24 2010, 03:32 PM cassioli QUOTE (Mongo @ Jun 24 2010, 04:32 PM) Per... Jun 25 2010, 07:08 AM Hungry4info Rosetta Right on Target for Lutetia flyby
http://w... Jul 7 2010, 03:14 PM alan Love this quote from the Planetary Society blog
QU... Jul 8 2010, 05:53 AM dmuller The ESA operations center ESOC is in Darmstadt, Ge... Jul 8 2010, 06:45 AM cassioli any new image of the approaching?!?
which ... Jul 8 2010, 06:50 AM charborob QUOTE (cassioli @ Jul 8 2010, 01:50 AM) w... Jul 8 2010, 01:46 PM Enceladus75 Looking forward to this flyby as it will add yet a... Jul 8 2010, 02:45 PM Alan Stern QUOTE (Enceladus75 @ Jul 8 2010, 02:45 PM... Jul 9 2010, 12:54 PM elakdawalla Enceladus75, the answer to your question was poste... Jul 8 2010, 03:00 PM Enceladus75 QUOTE Enceladus75, the answer to your question was... Jul 8 2010, 03:18 PM Phil Stooke http://webservices.esa.int/blog/post/5/1231
Getti... Jul 9 2010, 05:31 PM dmuller I have (at last!) added the "angular diam... Jul 9 2010, 05:42 PM belleraphon1 Another worldlet coming into our view... love it... Jul 9 2010, 07:21 PM maschnitz (Aside: hey, dmuller - ESA linked to you - http://... Jul 9 2010, 10:45 PM Hungry4info According to the Rosetta Real-Time Simulation, the... Jul 10 2010, 06:02 AM dmuller QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Jul 10 2010, 04:02 P... Jul 10 2010, 07:06 AM Hungry4info Ahh okay. My mistake.
From the Rosetta Blog.
Les... Jul 10 2010, 10:37 AM cassioli 160.000 km and counting!
http://www.dmuller.n... Jul 10 2010, 12:58 PM Hungry4info I'm guessing after they re-establish contact w... Jul 10 2010, 01:58 PM elakdawalla The first images will not be released until just a... Jul 10 2010, 02:17 PM dmuller Emily: You've described my problem quite well... Jul 10 2010, 02:46 PM elakdawalla Perhaps as a short term solution, for the few even... Jul 10 2010, 02:49 PM dmuller Sounds like a feasible idea. Too late to implement... Jul 10 2010, 02:55 PM Hungry4info A webcast has started.
http://webservices.esa.int... Jul 10 2010, 03:34 PM volcanopele LOL, of course the images will be presented only a... Jul 10 2010, 03:35 PM Hungry4info Well, we passed closest approach a few minutes ago... Jul 10 2010, 03:54 PM Phil Stooke http://webservices.esa.int/blog/post/5/1246
Pics... Jul 10 2010, 04:21 PM Hungry4info Behold Lutetia:
Edit: He beat me to it Jul 10 2010, 04:22 PM alan Contact reestablished following close approach Jul 10 2010, 04:48 PM kenny Wonderful images! 100 km across and no eviden... Jul 10 2010, 05:02 PM cassioli fly-by mission accomplished.
heading to the com... Jul 10 2010, 05:03 PM Phil Stooke "100 km across and no evidence of gravitional... Jul 10 2010, 05:07 PM Loiserl I just put the Lutetia close-up animation. I'l... Jul 10 2010, 05:08 PM dilo Loiserl, you beat me. In my version, I introduced ... Jul 10 2010, 05:27 PM Stu QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Jul 10 2010, 04:36 P... Jul 10 2010, 05:37 PM Phil Stooke Playing around with contrast a bit and rearranging... Jul 10 2010, 06:10 PM dilo Thank you Phil for your analysis... I used last tw... Jul 10 2010, 07:23 PM alan Live webcast is started Jul 10 2010, 09:03 PM ugordan http://webservices.esa.int/blog/post/5/1247
Lutet... Jul 10 2010, 09:04 PM alan Reminds me of Phobos
http://webservices.esa.int/bl... Jul 10 2010, 09:07 PM ElkGroveDan QUOTE (alan @ Jul 10 2010, 01:07 PM) Remi... Jul 10 2010, 10:15 PM Phil Stooke The best set of grooves on any object since Phobos... Jul 10 2010, 09:15 PM nprev QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jul 10 2010, 01:15 P... Jul 10 2010, 09:38 PM cassioli Never seen before: an asteroid with a planet in it... Jul 10 2010, 09:21 PM ugordan A bit of a colorization of that image:
Jul 10 2010, 09:40 PM ElkGroveDan QUOTE (ugordan @ Jul 10 2010, 01:04 PM) L... Jul 10 2010, 10:11 PM ngunn QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Jul 10 2010, 11:11 P... Jul 10 2010, 10:28 PM cassioli quick and dirt anaglyph: Jul 10 2010, 09:42 PM nprev Sweet, Gordan!
So far, gotta say that Rose... Jul 10 2010, 09:44 PM dilo Starting from now, this is my wallpaper! Jul 10 2010, 09:57 PM ugordan Some parts of that terrain look so smooth, it remi... Jul 10 2010, 10:06 PM peter59 Strange, It looks like shadows. The first is clear... Jul 10 2010, 10:11 PM ugordan Crud in in the optics, I'd say. Jul 10 2010, 10:14 PM machi Fantastic flyby! Evidently NAC camera worked f... Jul 10 2010, 10:24 PM alan QUOTE (machi @ Jul 10 2010, 05:24 PM) Som... Jul 10 2010, 11:55 PM DrShank QUOTE (machi @ Jul 10 2010, 05:24 PM) Fan... Jul 11 2010, 02:21 AM NickF Here's a quick composite showing Lutetia very ... Jul 10 2010, 11:13 PM nprev Nice, Nick! That's an excellent scale refe... Jul 10 2010, 11:17 PM Alan Stern QUOTE (nprev @ Jul 11 2010, 12:17 AM) Nic... Jul 10 2010, 11:41 PM NickF QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Jul 11 2010, 12:41 AM... Jul 11 2010, 12:31 AM Alan Stern Thanks Nick- That shows just what I wanted!
A... Jul 11 2010, 12:53 AM Phil Stooke Triton? Are you sure you don't mean Pluto?
P... Jul 11 2010, 01:53 AM Alan Stern QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jul 11 2010, 02:53 A... Jul 11 2010, 02:56 AM Mirek Just for a joke. Sorry NickF
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