ESA Rosetta, news, updates and discussion |
ESA Rosetta, news, updates and discussion |
Apr 15 2005, 08:20 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 563 Joined: 29-March 05 Member No.: 221 |
Well Rosetta isn't going to get to 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Chury) till 2014, but it's not to early to set up a thread. There are a bunch of earth fly-bys, a Mars encounter at 200km in 2007 and a few asteriod passes. Not to mention the mission to land on the comet itself.
Only another nine and a half years to go. |
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Mar 1 2006, 11:20 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 531 Joined: 24-August 05 Member No.: 471 |
http://fr.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0602631 - First albedo determination of 2867 Steins, target of the Rosetta mission
--- On the basis of its polarimetric slope value, we have derived an albedo of 0.45 +/-0.1, that gives an estimated diameter of 4.6 km, assuming an absolute V ma gnitude of 13.18 mag. --- -------------------- - blue_scape / Nico -
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