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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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- Paolo   CE-2 flyby of Toutatis   Aug 25 2012, 04:27 PM
- - ngunn   Venice?   Dec 17 2012, 03:28 PM
- - Phil Stooke   "China kept this encounter secret -- even the...   Dec 17 2012, 03:31 PM
|- - JimOberg   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Dec 17 2012, 04:31 P...   Dec 17 2012, 04:09 PM
- - machi   This one, I suppose.   Dec 17 2012, 08:41 PM
|- - JimOberg   QUOTE (machi @ Dec 17 2012, 09:41 PM) Thi...   Dec 17 2012, 10:05 PM
|- - tedstryk   Here is what most of us are using. I know the Goo...   Dec 17 2012, 10:28 PM
|- - JimOberg   QUOTE (tedstryk @ Dec 17 2012, 11:28 PM) ...   Dec 18 2012, 04:00 PM
|- - JimOberg   Unnecessary quoting removed Acknowledged and agre...   Dec 18 2012, 05:06 PM
- - jgoldader   The success of this flyby makes one wish for a few...   Dec 18 2012, 05:40 PM
|- - dvandorn   QUOTE (jgoldader @ Dec 18 2012, 11:40 AM)...   Dec 18 2012, 07:01 PM
- - elakdawalla   Michael Khan from ESA has done a little trigonomet...   Dec 18 2012, 07:20 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Dec 18 2012, 12:20 P...   Dec 18 2012, 09:21 PM
- - machi   I did some calculations based on two highest resol...   Dec 18 2012, 09:08 PM
- - Phil Stooke   The illustration might just be an 'artist...   Dec 18 2012, 09:51 PM
- - machi   QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Dec 18 2012, 10:21 PM...   Dec 18 2012, 10:21 PM
- - elakdawalla   This page linked to earlier discusses the camera...   Dec 18 2012, 10:47 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Dec 18 2012, 03:47 P...   Dec 19 2012, 01:23 AM
- - elakdawalla   For now, is just about the most informed comment...   Dec 19 2012, 01:39 AM
- - Phil Stooke   I took the smallest image and blew it up to the si...   Dec 19 2012, 03:26 AM
- - elakdawalla   Thank you. Since I have a history of "seeing...   Dec 19 2012, 04:29 AM
|- - Stefan   Somehow I am reminded of the time of the Huygens l...   Dec 19 2012, 07:55 PM
- - Paolo   the translation of an interview on the Chinese-led...   Dec 19 2012, 08:41 PM
- - Phil Stooke   I am surprised that an optical astronomy campaign ...   Dec 23 2012, 03:58 AM
- - Paolo   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Dec 23 2012, 04:58 A...   Dec 23 2012, 08:38 AM
- - Paolo   just found a paper (marked "for academic exch...   Dec 23 2012, 10:26 AM
|- - Paolo   QUOTE (Paolo @ Dec 23 2012, 11:26 AM) jus...   Mar 2 2013, 10:07 AM
- - Paolo   I am a bit surprised and disappointed that neither...   Jan 3 2013, 08:35 PM
|- - JimOberg   QUOTE (Paolo @ Jan 3 2013, 09:35 PM) I am...   Jan 8 2013, 05:25 AM
- - Phil Stooke   SBAG meeting: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/sbag/meetin...   Jan 8 2013, 08:22 PM
|- - Paolo   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jan 8 2013, 09:22 PM...   Jan 15 2013, 08:16 PM
- - Phil Stooke   http://www.lpi.usra.edu/sbag/meetings/jan2...CE_To...   Jan 18 2013, 11:39 PM
|- - Liss   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jan 19 2013, 03:39 A...   Jan 19 2013, 10:12 AM
- - Paolo   the repositioning of the solar panels reported in ...   Jan 19 2013, 09:24 AM
- - Paolo   and here is the image sequence. the complete seque...   Jan 19 2013, 10:14 AM
- - Paolo   Daniel Fischer (cosmos4u on twitter) has published...   Jan 20 2013, 09:43 AM
- - machi   This is composite image from last four published i...   Jan 20 2013, 12:36 PM
- - tasp   Thanx for the composite image! The 'divo...   Jan 20 2013, 03:16 PM
- - Decepticon   Excellent work!   Jan 21 2013, 12:41 AM
- - Paolo   I got a copy of the video that was embedded in the...   Jan 22 2013, 05:54 PM
- - Paolo   papers to be presented at the Beijing IAF congress...   Apr 28 2013, 12:56 PM
- - Paolo   the latest issue (5 2013) of SCIENCE CHINA Technol...   Jun 8 2013, 01:01 PM
- - Phil Stooke   The first one is a summary of the CE2 mission with...   Jun 8 2013, 01:11 PM
- - Paolo   you are right. one of the papers (the one on page...   Jun 8 2013, 01:16 PM
- - Paolo   still more papers in the 8 June issue of the journ...   Jun 19 2013, 05:18 AM
- - Explorer1   Closest approach was apparently less than a kilome...   Nov 21 2013, 08:19 PM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Nov 21 2013, 12:19 PM)...   Nov 22 2013, 03:11 PM
- - Paolo   one of the papers at this year's IAC had a clo...   Nov 22 2013, 06:22 AM
- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (Paolo @ Nov 21 2013, 10:22 PM) one...   Nov 22 2013, 03:51 PM
- - Paolo   I checked the paper "Relative Distance Estima...   Nov 22 2013, 05:31 PM
- - Paolo   by the way, Huang et al. (page 600) state, google ...   Nov 22 2013, 05:33 PM
- - elakdawalla   Thanks very much for digging those up! I will ...   Nov 22 2013, 06:36 PM
- - Paolo   another (open access, this time) paper on the scie...   Dec 12 2013, 05:47 PM
|- - Dysgraphyk   according to this paper QUOTE Chang'e-2 imple...   Dec 13 2013, 04:58 PM
|- - Paolo   QUOTE (Dysgraphyk @ Dec 13 2013, 05:58 PM...   Dec 13 2013, 05:04 PM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (Paolo @ Dec 13 2013, 09:04 AM) ......   Dec 14 2013, 12:58 AM
- - Paolo   actually, they had a trajectory correction (and a ...   Dec 14 2013, 08:41 AM
- - Paolo   a paper on the future orbit of CE-2, due for publi...   Apr 10 2014, 05:28 PM
- - Paolo   this interesting paper on the imaging strategy of ...   May 29 2014, 08:07 AM
- - Paolo   this was just published online in Advances in Spac...   Oct 25 2014, 06:34 AM
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