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post Feb 25 2021, 09:15 AM
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Hera's camera has been changed from flight spares of Dawn's Framing Camera to a camera without a filter wheel from the company Jena-Optronik. The motivation for this decision is "unknown", well at least to me! huh.gif
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post Jun 20 2021, 04:51 PM
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It seems as though mega-comet 2014 UN271 will be the subject of sustained study and lively discussion, even if it never becomes the object of a mission. In light of Rule 2.8 I’m parking this post here with the request that the mods consider moving it to its own thread.

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Interesting discovery: 2014 UN271- a 100 km object from DECam.
Perihelion 2031 Jan 28
a = 5416.99752 +/- 228 AU
e = 0.9979808 +/- 8.56e-5
Incl. 95.53003 +/- 0.00023
Period = 398692 years!
H = 7.8
q = 10.9377353 +/- 0.000814 AU
Q = 10823.0573 +/- 459 AU

https://twitter.com/TM_Eubanks/status/1406122217142984704

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No biggie, just a barely-bound dwarf planet coming within 11 au of the sun over the next 10 years…

The next decade of planetary science discoveries is going to be WILD!

https://twitter.com/Astro_Wright/status/1406327094863446017

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Oh my gosh, how fast can we build and launch something to rendezvous with this mega-comet? Size suggests probably not technically a dwarf planet but it’s a big ‘un. (About Epimetheus size.) 11 AU is near Saturn distance so still cold enough to be quite pristine.

https://twitter.com/elakdawalla/status/1406584665859772417
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post Jun 20 2021, 05:15 PM
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A very nice find.
With such a high inclination, I don't think it's really within even ESA's Comet Interceptor capabilities? The perihelion is far out of the plane of the solar system (and 11 AU is quite far for a SEP mission). Perhaps the ascending and descending nodes?
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post Jun 20 2021, 11:51 PM
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According to the JPL Small-Body Database Browser period of this object is more than 612,000 years and the aphelion (Q) is more than 14,411 A.U. That is almost a quarter of a light-year.

This is based on the latest observation in 2018 and there is no computation of uncertainty, so the specifics are likely to change. But clearly this thing is coming from way out there.
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post Jun 21 2021, 03:20 PM
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Yeah, this comet is way outside the area Comet Intercepter can target. CI requires the comet to reach a heliocentric distance of 0.8 to 1.2 AU and the encounter has to take place near the ecliptic.

I wouldn't be surprised if we'll start seeing some observations come in over the next week or so now that it's announced. If Hubble weren't out of commission right now, this is the exact sort of discovery that would be great for it to take a look at.


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post Jun 23 2021, 09:43 AM
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Hera will have a spacecraft monitoring camera onboard.
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post Jun 26 2021, 06:46 PM
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Incoming Visitor From the Oort Cloud Could Be Among the Largest Comets Ever Documented
The newly detected object is somewhere between 62 and 230 miles long.

https://gizmodo.com/incoming-visitor-from-t...-the-1847149513

The Gizmodo article linked above contains a useful summary of the discovery of and prospects for 2014 UN271, with interesting comments from several astronomers. There is also a link to several tweets from Dr. Pedro Bernardinelli @phbernardinelli, a PhD candidate in physics & astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania who led the discovery project, a search for Trans Neptunian Objects using the massive data set created by the Dark Energy Survey, https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/.

Dr. Bernardinelli's feed is currently full of additional information and links. Among other things, he explained something that had puzzled me, namely why an object so recently identified was assigned a 2014 designator. The discovery was the result of a computationally intense analysis of images acquired between 2014 and 2018 within a big data feed. There is no single "discovery image," and by convention they used the date of the earliest image. See https://twitter.com/Tom_Ruen/status/1406952833774145540
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Nice presentation about JAXA's DESTINY+ expedition to (3200) Phaethon.
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post Nov 27 2021, 04:12 PM
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QUOTE (machi @ Oct 21 2014, 12:40 AM) *
I cannot found better topic than this one so I apologize for reanimation of this old topic.
Here is my collage of all cometary nuclei imaged by spacecrafts and planetary radars at 25 m/pix.
Now it's with C/2013 A1 Siding Spring.



your missing 46P
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QUOTE (TrappistPlanets @ Nov 27 2021, 08:12 AM) *
your missing 46P


You’re missing the fact that the RADAR image you show is from 2018 and Machi’s composite is from 2014.
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NEA Scout has a (tiny!) target:

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-solar-sa...rtemis-i-launch

2020 GE, about half the size of Habauysa2's target (and getting there a lot sooner, apparently after an Earth flyby by the rock in 2023.

Flyby velocity of only 30 m/s is another record.
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post Jan 21 2022, 08:01 PM
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QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Jan 20 2022, 09:27 PM) *
NEA Scout has a (tiny!) target:

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-solar-sa...rtemis-i-launch

2020 GE, about half the size of Habauysa2's target (and getting there a lot sooner, apparently after an Earth flyby by the rock in 2023.

Flyby velocity of only 30 m/s is another record.

It will be almost like watching a meteoroid through the window of an airplane flying with it - but before it enters the Earth's atmosphere smile.gif
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