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Stardust-NExT, Revisiting Tempel 1

Paolo View Member Profile	Dec 28 2010, 01:46 PM Post #1
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004	I thought it was time to start a new thread on Stardust's flyby of Tempel 1, the first time a comet receives a second visit from a spacecraft one perihelion later. There was an interesting story about this on Spaceflight now recently http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1012/23stardustnext/ note that the flyby will be around 23.30 eastern time on 14 February, so thinking in GMT it will not happen on Valentine's day. Stardust should have started imaging Tempel 1 twice weekly in mid-December, but there is nothing yet on the mission site http://stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html see also http://stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/m...tatus10_q4.html for updates on the mission status

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Decepticon View Member Profile	Dec 30 2010, 03:04 AM Post #2
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1278 Joined: 25-November 04 Member No.: 114	QUOTE (volcanopele @ Dec 29 2010, 09:58 PM) Quick question: is the rotation of Temple 1 understood well enough that the mission planners can ensure that the DI impact site will be on the comet's sunlit side when Stardust-NExT flies by? According to this yes. http://www.sdnext.org/mission/pdfs/SD_NEXT_Fctsht.pdf

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Paolo Stardust-NExT Dec 28 2010, 01:46 PM

ElkGroveDan QUOTE (Paolo @ Dec 28 2010, 05:46 AM) Sta... Dec 28 2010, 01:56 PM

centsworth_II QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Dec 28 2010, 08:56 A... Dec 28 2010, 05:24 PM

Stu Hmmm. Now, is that an office desk in its naked, un... Dec 28 2010, 02:52 PM

djellison It's not that small really - http://stardustne... Dec 28 2010, 04:09 PM

ZLD Right, it's more the size of an outhouse. Tha... Dec 28 2010, 05:34 PM

elakdawalla I think that the Web outreach for this encounter i... Dec 29 2010, 06:16 PM

JohnVV QUOTE Now, is that an office desk in its naked, un... Dec 29 2010, 11:56 PM

ups I hope this thing is bigger than my office desk or... Dec 30 2010, 12:00 AM

djellison The spacecraft bus is basically 6ft x 2ft x 2ft - ... Dec 30 2010, 12:41 AM

nprev Surely some imagemage will shortly produce a faux ... Dec 30 2010, 12:50 AM

elakdawalla In the hopes of dragging this thread back to some ... Dec 30 2010, 01:13 AM

tedstryk Ugh. Dec 30 2010, 01:24 AM

nprev On the plus side this sounds like a well-understoo... Dec 30 2010, 01:32 AM

stevesliva QUOTE (nprev @ Dec 29 2010, 08:32 PM) On ... Dec 30 2010, 03:30 AM

volcanopele Quick question: is the rotation of Temple 1 unders... Dec 30 2010, 02:58 AM

Decepticon QUOTE (volcanopele @ Dec 29 2010, 09:58 P... Dec 30 2010, 03:04 AM

djellison Actually - I would urge caution on the crater obse... Dec 30 2010, 03:46 AM

JohnVV QUOTE somewhat worrying mission status update ?? i... Dec 30 2010, 05:35 AM

stevesliva QUOTE (JohnVV @ Dec 30 2010, 12:35 AM) so... Dec 30 2010, 05:50 AM

Phil Stooke "It's a small team and everybody who... Jan 3 2011, 05:38 AM

Astro0 That's where UMSF comes in... Hey, anything we... Jan 3 2011, 10:00 AM

Paolo a new status update. stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov/mis... Jan 7 2011, 12:49 PM

CJSF QUOTE (Paolo @ Jan 7 2011, 07:49 AM) a ne... Jan 7 2011, 04:45 PM

stevesliva No updates for awhile, but this RSS feed may point... Jan 19 2011, 10:53 PM

Paolo a new status update http://stardustnext.jpl.nasa.g... Jan 22 2011, 08:42 AM

elakdawalla Thanks for keeping an eye on that site, Paolo! Jan 22 2011, 10:14 PM

Hungry4info Stardust has located Tempel 1. http://www.jpl.nasa... Jan 27 2011, 02:39 PM

ZLD Heres a slightly cleaned up version: You can jus... Jan 27 2011, 08:49 PM

djellison That's just the coma - not the nucleus itself.... Jan 27 2011, 09:19 PM

ngunn Hey Doug - good to see factual contributions on ma... Jan 27 2011, 11:01 PM

djellison Probably my busiest day on lab yet I find myself... Jan 28 2011, 02:12 AM

stevesliva http://stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/m...tatus... Feb 3 2011, 12:31 AM

Explorer1 They said they were running low even before the ma... Feb 3 2011, 01:46 AM

djellison The estimates of how much they had / needed includ... Feb 3 2011, 02:31 AM

Explorer1 I realize that. I should've made that more cle... Feb 3 2011, 03:12 AM

stevesliva QUOTE February 3, 2011 The spacecraft is healthy a... Feb 4 2011, 11:48 PM

Gsnorgathon NASA Hosting Events for Valentine's Night Come... Feb 10 2011, 12:04 AM

Hungry4info The comet's rotation isn't known well enou... Feb 10 2011, 12:11 AM

djellison They have made a simulated light curve based on DI... Feb 10 2011, 04:07 AM

Phil Stooke Something to think about - this is a panel from my... Feb 10 2011, 10:32 PM

MahFL Stardust NExT 'Live' module is up and runn... Feb 11 2011, 11:25 AM

dilo Great maps, Phil... for sure you will soon update ... Feb 11 2011, 06:18 PM

ElkGroveDan closer....... Feb 14 2011, 05:17 AM

Astro0 Don't forget to login to the Eyes on the Solar... Feb 14 2011, 06:03 AM

djellison I've heard that someone might be demoing it li... Feb 14 2011, 06:13 AM

ElkGroveDan Don't have any chocolate the night before. Ne... Feb 14 2011, 06:43 AM

MahFL What time does the NASA tv coverage start ? Feb 14 2011, 12:10 PM

Astro0 Of course "what time?" depends on where ... Feb 14 2011, 12:18 PM

MahFL I know, just being lazy, also I don't actually... Feb 14 2011, 12:27 PM

stevesliva I don't know if these updates all came in at o... Feb 14 2011, 05:52 PM

CosmicRocker QUOTE (Astro0 @ Feb 14 2011, 12:03 AM) Do... Feb 14 2011, 06:37 PM

stevesliva So there was just a large solar flare. Did that s... Feb 14 2011, 09:02 PM

brellis I have EoSS on and Norton telemetry says it's ... Feb 14 2011, 09:57 PM

djellison You'll want to re-start EotSS later ( about 8.... Feb 14 2011, 10:12 PM

ElkGroveDan I used EotSS this weekend to wash my car and it di... Feb 14 2011, 11:56 PM

JohnVV my only gripe it the site is MS only i could bo... Feb 15 2011, 12:41 AM

djellison QUOTE (JohnVV @ Feb 14 2011, 04:41 PM) my... Feb 15 2011, 08:08 AM

Ron Hobbs When I try to go to the site, all I get is hash (b... Feb 15 2011, 12:54 AM

djellison That sometimes happens before your GFX card has fi... Feb 15 2011, 01:31 AM

nprev EoTSS running sweet here on Win7...nice view! ... Feb 15 2011, 01:55 AM

ElkGroveDan While we are waiting for our Glorious Leader to ta... Feb 15 2011, 03:57 AM

MahFL Watching. Feb 15 2011, 04:32 AM

Explorer1 Broadcast started now on NASAtv. Feb 15 2011, 04:33 AM

ZLD Its not PBS or the BBC, but it also receives a rea... Feb 15 2011, 04:35 AM

Explorer1 Dust Flux instrument is on! Feb 15 2011, 04:38 AM

CosmicRocker EotSS demo coming up soon! Feb 15 2011, 04:43 AM

Explorer1 There's Doug! Feb 15 2011, 04:45 AM

nprev Well done, Doug! Feb 15 2011, 04:48 AM

Explorer1 Closest approach done! (my heart jumped when t... Feb 15 2011, 04:59 AM

ZLD This is really a fantastic tool. Curious, is the ... Feb 15 2011, 05:01 AM

ElkGroveDan The orbit of the comet is actually very well under... Feb 15 2011, 05:05 AM

volcanopele QUOTE (ZLD @ Feb 14 2011, 10:01 PM) This ... Feb 15 2011, 05:44 AM

Explorer1 More dust after CA than before; interesting. Feb 15 2011, 05:10 AM

Hungry4info Not at all surprising, imho. Outbound, the spacecr... Feb 15 2011, 05:15 AM

Astro0 Doug was pretty awesome. This was his view http://... Feb 15 2011, 05:29 AM

belleraphon1 Nicely done Doug! Fun to watch simulation on ... Feb 15 2011, 05:45 AM

Explorer1 3 Ice Tea bottles of fuel, haha! I was wonderi... Feb 15 2011, 05:48 AM

Astro0 Hey, it's the boss! Feb 15 2011, 05:56 AM

CosmicRocker Yeah, demo II was terrific. Now, I know how to dr... Feb 15 2011, 06:11 AM

Astro0 Canberra DSN did a great job today. Two antennas o... Feb 15 2011, 06:17 AM

dilo Stardust seems very low on the horizon, indeed... Feb 15 2011, 06:28 AM

Astro0 Yep, we've been tracking all day, so a full ho... Feb 15 2011, 06:33 AM

elakdawalla Astro0, we don't say it enough: many many than... Feb 15 2011, 07:07 AM

ZLD In relation to my question, I wasn't curious i... Feb 15 2011, 07:51 AM

brellis Mr. Ellison, that was a great presentation! Feb 15 2011, 07:59 AM

djellison We have a predicted trajectory for both spacecraft... Feb 15 2011, 08:02 AM

Sunspot Whats going on? lots of people around monitors....... Feb 15 2011, 08:52 AM

Gsnorgathon First images! Tiny ones, so far. ~2,500km away... Feb 15 2011, 09:15 AM

Explorer1 First taken, rather then 'planned five'. U... Feb 15 2011, 09:19 AM

Gsnorgathon They're saying ~6hr wait to get the closest ap... Feb 15 2011, 09:22 AM

Hungry4info Apparently, they intended to download the closest ... Feb 15 2011, 09:19 AM

Astro0 First image. 20 x zoom Better: Feb 15 2011, 09:20 AM

Explorer1 2 up at : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/stardust/ ... Feb 15 2011, 09:23 AM

ugordan QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Feb 15 2011, 10:23 AM)... Feb 15 2011, 09:44 AM

Astro0 EDIT: Revised animation sequence - first 6 images ... Feb 15 2011, 09:55 AM

ugordan 6th image is down. Also blurry. Tick... tock... Feb 15 2011, 10:01 AM

jasedm Hmmm tantalising, but still too early to say wheth... Feb 15 2011, 10:02 AM

Toma B In image "n30007te01" 2 circular formati... Feb 15 2011, 10:20 AM

ugordan I don't know, the sharpened images Astro0 post... Feb 15 2011, 10:24 AM

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