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CE-2 flyby of Toutatis
Paolo
post Aug 25 2012, 04:27 PM
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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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post Dec 15 2012, 11:58 AM
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Congrats to the Chinese! There's some depressions that obviously look like craters there, but not as many as I'd expect and they seem "muted". Would this suggest a low-density "rubble pile" composition?
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- Paolo   CE-2 flyby of Toutatis   Aug 25 2012, 04:27 PM
- - Paolo   a few more observations of Chang'e 2 (designat...   Aug 27 2012, 10:02 AM
- - TheAnt   Interesting story thank you for sharing. Mr Gray ...   Sep 1 2012, 10:03 PM
|- - rlorenz   I don't suppose they'll rename the spacecr...   Sep 1 2012, 10:19 PM
- - Paolo   I have got a copy of this paper presented at last ...   Oct 7 2012, 08:37 AM
- - tolis   According to JPL's HORIZONS ephemeris service,...   Oct 10 2012, 01:45 PM
- - Paolo   I saw it in November 1996 using a small, 114 mm te...   Oct 10 2012, 03:15 PM
|- - tolis   QUOTE (Paolo @ Oct 10 2012, 04:15 PM) I s...   Oct 12 2012, 10:22 AM
- - Paolo   today on arXiv: Composition of Near-Earth Asteroid...   Oct 11 2012, 07:00 AM
- - Paolo   to answer Phil Stooke's question in another th...   Oct 28 2012, 08:43 AM
- - Phil Stooke   Excellent - thanks for this. Phil   Oct 28 2012, 01:38 PM
- - Tom Tamlyn   The link to Bill Gray's August 25 planetary.or...   Oct 28 2012, 03:49 PM
- - Paolo   just tweeted by @asrivkin at the AGU meeting QUOT...   Dec 5 2012, 06:29 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Check out this e-poster from the current AGU meeti...   Dec 5 2012, 07:10 PM
- - Paolo   I saw it. It's a pity that 2 pics will not be ...   Dec 5 2012, 07:20 PM
- - Phil Stooke   No, but radar does that very well. Phil   Dec 5 2012, 07:51 PM
- - Paolo   speaking of which, the first radar image of the 20...   Dec 5 2012, 08:04 PM
- - Paolo   from this post to the mpml asteroids and comets gr...   Dec 6 2012, 08:15 AM
- - machi   So we can expect images with resolution ~100 m/pix...   Dec 6 2012, 10:58 AM
- - Explorer1   So the images will be the equivalent of what Deep ...   Dec 6 2012, 11:19 PM
- - machi   Deep Space took images of Braille with resolution ...   Dec 7 2012, 12:43 PM
- - Paolo   anyway, as the camera has two linear CCDs, a forwa...   Dec 7 2012, 01:17 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Machi, that is Steins, not Braille. And Paolo - d...   Dec 7 2012, 02:11 PM
|- - Paolo   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Dec 7 2012, 03:11 PM...   Dec 7 2012, 07:56 PM
- - machi   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Dec 7 2012, 03:11 PM...   Dec 7 2012, 03:11 PM
- - Paolo   third radar picture http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/aster...   Dec 8 2012, 08:46 AM
- - machi   According to this page, flyby distance will be aro...   Dec 9 2012, 10:59 AM
- - tasp   I'm not thinking of any other 'rocks' ...   Dec 9 2012, 01:21 PM
- - Paolo   Itokawa had been imaged by radar before Hayabusa a...   Dec 9 2012, 01:23 PM
- - machi   QUOTE (tasp @ Dec 9 2012, 02:21 PM) I...   Dec 9 2012, 02:34 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Comparing the Itokawa radar images and shape model...   Dec 9 2012, 02:53 PM
- - JimOberg   Technical info is great. Hsieh hsieh. Big pictur...   Dec 9 2012, 05:47 PM
- - Explorer1   The absence of news is business as usual over ther...   Dec 9 2012, 08:38 PM
|- - JimOberg   QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Dec 9 2012, 09:38 PM) ...   Dec 10 2012, 06:14 AM
- - Explorer1   Yes, I've read Don Mitchell's page on the ...   Dec 10 2012, 06:32 AM
- - Paolo   there was a long article on the development of CE-...   Dec 10 2012, 08:15 AM
|- - JimOberg   QUOTE (Paolo @ Dec 10 2012, 09:15 AM) the...   Dec 10 2012, 03:13 PM
- - Paolo   another long article in Chinese linked today on th...   Dec 10 2012, 06:01 PM
|- - JimOberg   QUOTE (Paolo @ Dec 10 2012, 07:01 PM) ano...   Dec 10 2012, 08:01 PM
|- - stevesliva   ^ Google Translate ... seems to be a blogger askin...   Dec 10 2012, 08:13 PM
- - elakdawalla   Google translate worked for me. There's no new...   Dec 10 2012, 08:13 PM
|- - JimOberg   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Dec 10 2012, 09:13 P...   Dec 10 2012, 09:17 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (JimOberg @ Dec 10 2012, 02:17 PM) ...   Dec 10 2012, 09:51 PM
- - Phil Stooke   http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroids/Toutati...2_pla...   Dec 11 2012, 02:59 PM
- - machi   Very interesting images. Here is image pair from 9...   Dec 11 2012, 05:06 PM
- - Phil Stooke   15 years ago I made a map of Toutatis, using an ex...   Dec 11 2012, 06:04 PM
- - Paolo   anybody knows whether ESA is providing tracking su...   Dec 13 2012, 01:07 PM
- - Greenish   The images at http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroids/T...   Dec 13 2012, 03:00 PM
- - Phil Stooke   I don't see anything in the online chinese pre...   Dec 14 2012, 03:57 PM
- - Paolo   I have seen a release (in Chinese) on the site of ...   Dec 14 2012, 04:14 PM
- - machi   I read on multiple Chinese pages, that they planne...   Dec 14 2012, 04:43 PM
- - Paolo   be sure to check this! http://www.youtube.com/...   Dec 14 2012, 05:46 PM
- - Phil Stooke   The radar video is great - first time I have seen ...   Dec 14 2012, 06:51 PM
- - machi   The video is great, but Toutatis looks somewhat di...   Dec 14 2012, 07:53 PM
- - Phil Stooke   That's because of the bizarre geometry of rada...   Dec 14 2012, 08:05 PM
|- - tedstryk   Assuming it is better than the 2002 NY40 images, t...   Dec 14 2012, 09:04 PM
- - yaohua2000   Video: http://news.cntv.cn/china/20121215/100850.s...   Dec 14 2012, 11:27 PM
- - Cosmic Penguin   Just in from the Chinese news TV reports an hour a...   Dec 14 2012, 11:30 PM
|- - tedstryk   Woah! That is better than I was expecting. W...   Dec 14 2012, 11:35 PM
- - machi   Fantastic and great news! Now we have another...   Dec 14 2012, 11:56 PM
- - Explorer1   Very fast release! I'm glad to have been w...   Dec 15 2012, 12:06 AM
- - elakdawalla   I wonder, were these images taken with the webcam-...   Dec 15 2012, 12:09 AM
|- - Paolo   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Dec 15 2012, 01:09 A...   Dec 15 2012, 08:32 AM
- - Phil Stooke   3.2 km? Amazing, just amazing. Solar panel monit...   Dec 15 2012, 12:18 AM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Dec 14 2012, 05:18 P...   Dec 15 2012, 12:28 AM
|- - JimOberg   QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Dec 15 2012, 01:28 AM...   Dec 17 2012, 01:57 PM
- - elakdawalla   I'm trying to figure out what the scale of the...   Dec 15 2012, 12:38 AM
- - machi   My measurements are: long axis ~800 pix, short axi...   Dec 15 2012, 12:59 AM
- - Phil Stooke   I can confirm that this view shows the long dimens...   Dec 15 2012, 01:06 AM
- - Phil Stooke   Bringing out a bit more detail in the brighter are...   Dec 15 2012, 01:26 AM
- - machi   Attempted comparison with Goldstone radar imagery.   Dec 15 2012, 01:46 AM
- - ElkGroveDan   Is there any doubt that we are looking at two dist...   Dec 15 2012, 02:37 AM
- - Phil Stooke   If this is an approach sequence, there may be a de...   Dec 15 2012, 02:47 AM
|- - Stefan   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Dec 15 2012, 03:47 A...   Dec 15 2012, 11:58 AM
- - elakdawalla   Beginning to look at the image and try some early ...   Dec 15 2012, 02:58 AM
- - yaohua2000   More info: 20 Kbps at 7 million km, 90% data has b...   Dec 15 2012, 03:01 AM
|- - tedstryk   Thanks for posting that! I think you mean 5 m...   Dec 15 2012, 03:07 AM
- - Phil Stooke   Shape model and slope map here: http://echo.jpl.n...   Dec 15 2012, 04:30 AM
- - Paolo   wow! China releases the first pics and I happe...   Dec 15 2012, 07:37 AM
- - Doc   Outstanding Chinese performance. Thanks for postin...   Dec 15 2012, 09:08 AM
- - Tayfun Öner   Here is a 3D PDF of the shape model. (It is heavil...   Dec 15 2012, 09:30 AM
- - machi   Here is Chinese TV show dedicated to Toutatis flyb...   Dec 15 2012, 11:14 AM
- - Drkskywxlt   Congrats to the Chinese! There's some dep...   Dec 15 2012, 11:58 AM
- - machi   Yes, all images are almost equal (apart from size)...   Dec 15 2012, 12:41 PM
- - tolis   Amazing stuff! Apart from the sheer speed of ...   Dec 15 2012, 02:07 PM
- - Paolo   this is what a Chang'e 2 CMOS webcam looks lik...   Dec 15 2012, 02:12 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Comparison of the new image with the radar shape f...   Dec 15 2012, 02:31 PM
- - Paolo   Chinese sources such as this http://www.stdaily.co...   Dec 16 2012, 09:53 AM
|- - Cosmic Penguin   Apparently the main camera was not powered on (nor...   Dec 16 2012, 11:30 AM
- - machi   I have somewhat different informations about Chang...   Dec 16 2012, 10:15 AM
- - Paolo   I don't want to belittle the CE-2 achievement,...   Dec 16 2012, 12:01 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (Paolo @ Dec 16 2012, 05:01 AM) wha...   Dec 16 2012, 04:29 PM
||- - dilo   I tried to make a stereogram using the fourth and ...   Dec 16 2012, 10:15 PM
|- - JimOberg   QUOTE (Paolo @ Dec 16 2012, 01:01 PM) as ...   Dec 17 2012, 02:05 PM
- - machi   We can look to the past. CE-2 flyby was in many wa...   Dec 16 2012, 12:36 PM
|- - tedstryk   It may also provide a bridge between what we are s...   Dec 16 2012, 01:22 PM
- - Phil Stooke   "beside basic shape and topography, what can ...   Dec 16 2012, 03:24 PM
|- - Paolo   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Dec 16 2012, 04:24 P...   Dec 17 2012, 09:39 AM
- - tasp   Appreciate the stereogram effort very much. I thi...   Dec 17 2012, 04:40 AM
- - JimOberg   On a policy issue note, we must realize that China...   Dec 17 2012, 02:09 PM
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