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Rosetta's Earth Swing-by, 13th November, 2007
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post Oct 19 2007, 01:32 PM
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"Yesterday, 18 October at 18:06 CEST, the thrusters of ESA’s comet chaser, Rosetta, were fired in a planned, 42-second trajectory correction manoeuvre designed to 'fine tune' the spacecraft's approach to Earth. Rosetta is now approaching Earth for its second planetary swing-by of 2007."

From here.

Maybe it is time to start a new thread...
Get out of the way, Rosetta is coming to visit us at full speed! smile.gif


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post Oct 19 2007, 01:40 PM
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Cool. I can't wait to NOT get more great images from Rosetta... dry.gif


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post Oct 19 2007, 01:53 PM
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QUOTE (ugordan @ Oct 19 2007, 02:40 PM) *
Cool. I can't wait to NOT get more great images from Rosetta... dry.gif


Oh yes...I forgot that a complaineorit shower takes place around each Rosetta Swing-by... tongue.gif


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post Oct 19 2007, 02:03 PM
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Wow! Maybe I missed it - But I hadn't seen the stunning Philae image of Mars+Rosetta before!


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post Oct 19 2007, 02:12 PM
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QUOTE (jamescanvin @ Oct 19 2007, 03:03 PM) *
Wow! Maybe I missed it - But I hadn't seen the stunning Philae image of Mars+Rosetta before!


I presume you were taking vacations at Saturn by then... rolleyes.gif


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post Oct 19 2007, 02:28 PM
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Well, New Zealand - similar but with fewer rings.

I've found that thread now so i can catch up - silly me thinking that that there wouldn't be any images from the flyby yet, being that it's still the same year. rolleyes.gif #


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post Oct 20 2007, 11:23 AM
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Isn't Rosetta the first spacecraft to visit Mars and then Earth again?
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post Oct 20 2007, 11:34 AM
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QUOTE (CAP-Team @ Oct 20 2007, 01:23 PM) *
Isn't Rosetta the first spacecraft to visit Mars and then Earth again?

I believe it is.


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post Oct 20 2007, 03:14 PM
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I don't know what their release plans are but they do at least plan to take some good photos. I asked Gerhard Schwehm and he said that he'd get back to me with specifics, but broadly speaking, "OSIRIS will observe at approach briefly the night side of the Earth and after perigee will make observations of the Earth and the Moon under the more favourable lighting conditions having the Sun in the back."

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post Oct 21 2007, 12:36 PM
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Does anyone know anything about the geometry of the lunar imaging? I recall that it will be fairly distant, but I am not sure if it is near side or far side.


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post Oct 21 2007, 05:29 PM
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Closest approach is on 14 november 2007 at about 0:00 GMT (381,000 km)

Approach is on the unlit side of the moon which is the side that faces earth, after the closest approach we're looking at the trailing hemisphere.

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post Oct 21 2007, 08:04 PM
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QUOTE (jamescanvin @ Oct 19 2007, 04:28 PM) *
Well, New Zealand - similar but with fewer rings.

Unlike Rosetta's I guess your pictures were... All... Black...


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post Nov 5 2007, 11:10 AM
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Here goes!

1) Science plans for Rosetta’s Earth flyby :
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001216/

2) Yet another illustrations to the article above - groundtrack and simulated views :
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post Nov 9 2007, 03:37 AM
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Please note that the Minor Planet Center's official designation for Rosetta is asteroid 2007 VN84 smile.gif

2007 VN84

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post Nov 9 2007, 04:11 AM
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Funny! biggrin.gif Thanks for pointing that out.

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