Hayabusa - The Return To Earth, The voyage home |
Hayabusa - The Return To Earth, The voyage home |
Nov 28 2005, 03:08 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 510 Joined: 17-March 05 From: Southeast Michigan Member No.: 209 |
...starting a new thread for Hayabusa's sampling feedback and the return voyage.
After its nail-biting success in November, will there be enough fuel for the Falcon to make it home? -------------------- --O'Dave
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Dec 17 2005, 09:18 PM
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Well, it did everything NEAR did on only about 2/3 of the money, which is not to be sneezed at -- especially since it gave us nice comparative data on another asteroid. Unfortunately, it now looks as though everything it tried to do BEYOND what NEAR did will be a washout.
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Dec 18 2005, 02:05 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 544 Joined: 17-November 05 From: Oklahoma Member No.: 557 |
QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Dec 17 2005, 03:18 PM) Hayabusa had no gamma ray spectrometer, and no magnetometer. To my knowlege, Hayabusa did not return surface pictures of Itokawa as detailed as the final pictures of Eros from NEAR. And while touch-and-go landings are impressive, orbiting small irregular bodies - which Hayabusa never did - is pretty impressive, too. |
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Dec 19 2005, 12:30 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: 20-April 05 From: Japan Member No.: 283 |
QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ Dec 18 2005, 02:05 AM) To my knowlege, Hayabusa did not return surface pictures of Itokawa as detailed as the final pictures of Eros from NEAR. This 11-17 JAXA release claimed a resolution of 1.5 - 2.0 cm a pixel for the closest image obtained by Hayabusa. NEAR Shoemaker’s last image had a resolution of about 1.1cm, but covered a smaller area, and had about 1/8 the number of pixels that were in the Hayabusa image. |
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