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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Jul 8 2010, 02:45 PM
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Looking forward to this flyby as it will add yet another asteroid to the list of objects visited by a spacecraft and studied up close. Will Rosetta be taking other measurements of Lutetia apart from images?
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Jul 9 2010, 12:54 PM
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Looking forward to this flyby as it will add yet another asteroid to the list of objects visited by a spacecraft and studied up close. Will Rosetta be taking other measurements of Lutetia apart from images? Yes, IR mapping spectroscopy, thermal mapping, UV coma searches, UV reflectance spectroscopy, magnetic field search, the list goes on... |
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