Stardust-NExT, Revisiting Tempel 1 |
Stardust-NExT, Revisiting Tempel 1 |
Dec 28 2010, 01:46 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 |
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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Feb 14 2011, 10:12 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14448 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
You'll want to re-start EotSS later ( about 8.30pm Pacific - just when the broadcast starts ) - as we'll have adjusted for the updated C/A time.
And that flare was on the Earth side of the sun ...and using EotSS (sorry to plug it so much ) you can see Stardust is on the other side of the Solar System. |
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Feb 14 2011, 11:56 PM
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