CE-2 flyby of Toutatis |
CE-2 flyby of Toutatis |
Aug 25 2012, 04:27 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 split the subject from the Moon forum.
Admins, can you move the relevant messages here? anyway, just out: an interesting blog article by Bill Gray explaining how he recovered the probe and how he computed the orbit yielding the 13 December flyby date Chang'e 2: The Full Story |
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Dec 13 2012, 03:00 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 219 Joined: 14-November 11 From: Washington, DC Member No.: 6237 |
The images at http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroids/Toutati...2_planning.html get better every day. Will be really interesting to see how the delay-doppler representations compare to the visible light ones.
I just noticed the following on that page: "Scheduling update: due to an equipment failure, radar observations of Toutatis at Arecibo were cancelled." Not sure when this appeared... Can anyone explain what the potential impact could be on the observing campaign? Not that I'm complaining, the Goldstone quick results are great and impressive on their own. |
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