Asteroid approach, Science operations begin! |
Asteroid approach, Science operations begin! |
 Aug 24 2018, 06:48 PM
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NASA update on the OSIRIS-REx mission, includes first picture of the asteroid from the spacecraft.
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Holder of the Two Leashes Asteroid approach Aug 24 2018, 06:48 PM
Phil Stooke Time to update my map! No craters are named y... Mar 20 2020, 02:32 AM stevesliva Google translate: saxum == stone. That's a ne... Mar 20 2020, 02:51 AM Marcin600 This is a new category in the Solar System nomencl... Mar 20 2020, 08:16 AM Marcin600 Bennu Global Mosaic - version without text Mar 20 2020, 09:24 AM Marcin600 New, sharp and amazing resolution pictures of Benn... Mar 20 2020, 09:59 AM Marcin600 Another example of surprisingly geometric shapes o... Mar 20 2020, 10:04 AM Phil Stooke Marcin600 - yes, I just noticed the mosaic has bee... Mar 20 2020, 04:08 PM
Marcin600 QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Mar 20 2020, 05:08 P... Mar 20 2020, 10:13 PM Phil Stooke Polar projections...
These are not full polar ... Mar 21 2020, 08:05 PM Marcin600 QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Mar 21 2020, 09:05 P... Mar 22 2020, 04:47 AM mcaplinger Here's some more info about Natural Feature Tr... Mar 25 2020, 03:52 AM Phil Stooke Here is a new map using the recently-released miss... Mar 28 2020, 09:27 PM Phil Stooke https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/news/nomencla...rove... Mar 31 2020, 08:57 PM Phil Stooke Time permitted. New map, new names.
Phil
Mar 31 2020, 09:32 PM Phil Stooke OK, now I'm adding the locations of the three ... Apr 4 2020, 06:42 PM chuckclark Hmm. Three. And all in the same hemisphere. Ain... Apr 5 2020, 12:40 PM Quetzalcoatl Greetings to you all,
Looking back on two recent ... Apr 7 2020, 03:13 PM john_s Straight-line fractures ("joints") are p... Apr 7 2020, 10:09 PM JRehling Bennu originated as a fragment of a larger body, s... Apr 8 2020, 08:20 AM Quetzalcoatl QUOTE (JRehling @ Apr 8 2020, 09:20 AM) B... Apr 8 2020, 10:48 AM Quetzalcoatl QUOTE (john_s @ Apr 7 2020, 11:09 PM) Str... Apr 8 2020, 10:44 AM Marcin600 Since „...the most prominent joints occur [o... Apr 9 2020, 03:41 PM Quetzalcoatl Hello Marcin,
Some remarks to explain my point of... Apr 10 2020, 07:36 AM Marcin600 Quetzalcoatl, are you suggesting some sort of bedd... Apr 10 2020, 03:59 PM Quetzalcoatl QUOTE (Marcin600 @ Apr 10 2020, 04:59 PM)... Apr 10 2020, 06:42 PM Quetzalcoatl QUOTE (Marcin600 @ Apr 10 2020, 04:59 PM)... Apr 10 2020, 06:47 PM Quetzalcoatl QUOTE (Marcin600 @ Apr 10 2020, 04:59 PM)... Apr 10 2020, 06:52 PM Marcin600 Three days left until the first rehearsal
I wonde... Apr 11 2020, 06:08 PM Brian Swift Any OSIRIS-REx navigation people here?
I'm won... Apr 11 2020, 08:54 PM mcaplinger QUOTE (Brian Swift @ Apr 11 2020, 12:54 P... Apr 12 2020, 12:07 AM Brian Swift QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Apr 11 2020, 04:07 PM... Apr 12 2020, 06:03 PM mcaplinger QUOTE (Brian Swift @ Apr 11 2020, 12:54 P... Apr 13 2020, 10:53 PM Holder of the Two Leashes A "trim" maneuver would be named TRnTn (... Apr 12 2020, 05:51 PM mcaplinger QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ Apr 12 202... Apr 12 2020, 07:16 PM Marcin600 Checkpoint rehearsal activities start today, April... Apr 14 2020, 08:17 AM Daniele_bianchino_Italy For years I have imagined the small meteorites tha... Apr 14 2020, 11:15 AM JRehling QUOTE (Daniele_bianchino_Italy @ Apr 14 2020,... Apr 18 2020, 07:59 PM Daniele_bianchino_Italy QUOTE (JRehling @ Apr 18 2020, 08:59 PM) ... Apr 20 2020, 11:43 AM Marcin600 QUOTE (Daniele_bianchino_Italy @ Apr 20 2020,... Apr 20 2020, 06:53 PM mcaplinger Here's a text file with the predicted position... Apr 14 2020, 04:45 PM Brian Swift Here's a visualization of the March 3, 2020 lo... Apr 14 2020, 06:10 PM Marcin600 Everything went perfectly! And in large part t... Apr 15 2020, 10:02 PM Holder of the Two Leashes The approach test was a success. Here is Spacefli... Apr 16 2020, 01:13 PM Brian Swift If you'd like to walk around Bennu or set it o... Apr 18 2020, 06:14 AM Marcin600 Nice new pictures from the latest Checkpoint Rehea... Apr 28 2020, 08:56 PM Marcin600 Just for fun - limited edition of Bennu (for Mars ... Apr 28 2020, 11:05 PM Brian Swift A simulated panorama and fisheye view from 50m bel... May 12 2020, 12:45 AM Brian Swift Checkpoint Rehearsal visualization on YouTube http... May 17 2020, 07:41 AM Explorer1 Touchdown delayed to October 20th:
https://www.as... May 21 2020, 12:37 AM Marcin600 New excellent mosaic of Osprey (backup site) on th... Jun 8 2020, 11:08 PM Marcin600 Today, June 9, a very interesting article appeared... Jun 9 2020, 08:43 PM Holder of the Two Leashes NASA has released a mosaic picture of the prime la... Jun 17 2020, 01:49 PM Marcin600 Another amazingly flat boulder on Bennu, close to ... Jun 19 2020, 05:08 PM palebutdot Earth and Moon seen from Asteroid Bennu
https://sb... Jul 14 2020, 07:09 AM Holder of the Two Leashes According to the mission's Twitter site, the m... Aug 12 2020, 02:27 PM Explorer1 Video is up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a... Aug 12 2020, 10:09 PM Phil Stooke In preparation for the sampling I have updated my ... Sep 11 2020, 11:03 PM Phil Stooke Here is an interesting abstract from the Apophis w... Sep 19 2020, 11:16 PM vjkane QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Sep 19 2020, 04:16 P... Sep 20 2020, 12:58 AM Marcin600 New, interesting results on the OSIRIS-Rex website... Sep 23 2020, 05:48 AM Phil Stooke I just couldn't go to bed without adding those... Sep 23 2020, 06:48 AM marsbug That's an awesome map (I do have a soft spot f... Sep 24 2020, 09:06 AM Marcin600 This is undoubtedly the best Bennu map!
I dre... Sep 24 2020, 06:07 PM Marcin600 The first attempt of TAG sample collection event i... Sep 26 2020, 03:18 AM Marcin600 Another articles with new, very interesting result... Oct 12 2020, 01:44 AM Explorer1 I don't understand how you could have a void a... Oct 12 2020, 04:21 AM mcaplinger QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Oct 11 2020, 08:21 PM)... Oct 12 2020, 06:42 AM Marcin600 QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Oct 12 2020, 08:42 AM... Oct 12 2020, 07:49 PM HSchirmer QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Oct 12 2020, 05:21 AM)... Oct 12 2020, 09:37 PM Phil Stooke "I dream that one day Phil will make a comple... Oct 12 2020, 07:10 AM Marcin600 QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Oct 12 2020, 09:10 A... Oct 12 2020, 08:09 PM Holder of the Two Leashes NASA will carry a live broadcast of the first samp... Oct 15 2020, 02:21 PM JRehling The packing density of a conglomeration of random ... Oct 16 2020, 01:06 AM Explorer1 Livestream of simulated spacecraft events has star... Oct 20 2020, 05:41 PM mcaplinger QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Oct 20 2020, 09:41 AM)... Oct 20 2020, 09:43 PM fredk That's 5pm EDT, or 21:00 UT, for the live NASA... Oct 20 2020, 06:39 PM Holder of the Two Leashes The OSIRIS REx team is updating their Twitter acco... Oct 20 2020, 07:27 PM nprev Coverage is live on NASA TV. Oct 20 2020, 09:30 PM Explorer1 TAG completed! Spacecraft going back up! Oct 20 2020, 10:15 PM mcaplinger Sampling complete! Now to get the images back... Oct 20 2020, 10:16 PM nprev Outstanding!
One of the best parts of watchi... Oct 20 2020, 10:19 PM MahFL Awesome. Now to see if they got enough sample. Oct 20 2020, 10:49 PM Marcin600 Exciting !!!
From the NASA website:
... Oct 20 2020, 11:17 PM Brian Swift Anyone have insight into why contact time (2020-10... Oct 20 2020, 11:18 PM mcaplinger Data flowing to the DSN at 900 kbps. Press confer... Oct 21 2020, 03:35 PM Explorer1 IMAGES UP:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2... Oct 21 2020, 09:11 PM Marcin600 "Upon initial contact, the TAGSAM head appear... Oct 21 2020, 10:14 PM fredk Aligned on the ground:
Oct 22 2020, 02:59 AM abalone Good spray of material with the nitrogen blast. Th... Oct 22 2020, 04:34 AM Bagelvoid QUOTE (abalone @ Oct 22 2020, 04:34 AM) G... Oct 22 2020, 06:33 PM JRehling Wow, the expectation was that these rocks would be... Oct 22 2020, 06:45 PM Holder of the Two Leashes QUOTE (JRehling @ Oct 22 2020, 12:45 PM) ... Oct 23 2020, 03:22 PM Brian Swift Here is a re-timed version of TAG images, running ... Oct 22 2020, 07:59 AM Explorer1 The dark shadow of the debris cloud is especially ... Oct 22 2020, 11:59 AM john_s I'm having a little trouble understanding the ... Oct 22 2020, 02:56 PM Brian Swift QUOTE (john_s @ Oct 22 2020, 07:56 AM) An... Oct 22 2020, 04:31 PM walfy QUOTE (john_s @ Oct 22 2020, 06:56 AM) I... Oct 22 2020, 08:28 PM neo56 I'm asking the same question John. Some people... Oct 22 2020, 04:52 PM Marcin600 Since the shadows in the pictures are to the right... Oct 22 2020, 06:18 PM HSchirmer It reacts like a frozen clump of sand or gravel.
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