OSIRIS-REX mission to 1999 RQ36 (Bennu), New Frontiers Mission to Launch in 2016 |
OSIRIS-REX mission to 1999 RQ36 (Bennu), New Frontiers Mission to Launch in 2016 |
Aug 9 2010, 08:56 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1592 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
Saw this news article today:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...th-osiris-rq36/ And didn't see a thread on this mission. There was a passing reference or two to it, and a mention here: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...310#entry161310 Of this: http://futureplanets.blogspot.com/search/l...roid%20Proposal Which I guess I missed on vjkane's blog. |
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Feb 2 2017, 02:31 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 544 Joined: 17-November 05 From: Oklahoma Member No.: 557 |
Here is an article about the upcoming search for earth trojans at the L4 point which is just about to get underway:
Asteroid sleuth QUOTE Between Feb. 9 and Feb. 20, the spacecraft’s mapping camera will take 145 pictures per day of the volume of space where Earth-Trojans are expected to reside, according to Lauretta. “It’s a big cloud, and there should be material there,” Hergenrother said at a Jan. 12 meeting of NASA’s Small Bodies Assessment Group. “We should be able to detect stuff down to 100 meters (330 feet), and possibly even smaller, depending on the performance of our cameras, and the albedo (reflectivity). “If we don’t find anything, it either means there’s a lot less objects out there than we were thinking, or they’re a lot smaller,” Hergenrother said. |
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