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  Mar 14 2006, 01:04 PM
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First of all, again the two existing encounter animations:
Animation 1 Animation 2 Nearest approach:  Resolution about 3,6 km/pxl. And some pre-info about upcoming encounters: 2006 Mar 25 to Apr 18: Apr 11 - 602.412 km; 14-3.6 km/pxl; medium to high phase, southern hemisphere as crescent 2006 Jun 17 to 27: Jun 23 - 1.343.000 km; 14-8.1 km/pxl; medium to low phase, sub-Saturn hemisphere 2006 Sep 08 to 09: Sep 02 - 1.816.000 km; ~20 km/pxl; zero phase (3 to 0.05 deg), sub-Saturn 2006 Nov 26: 1.997.000 km; 12 km/pxl; very low phase, sub-Saturn 2007 Feb 12 to 15: Feb 14 - 2.249.000 km; ~14 km/pxl; sub-Saturn; very low phase and eclipse 2007 Apr 14: 2.256.000 km 2007 Jun 22: 1.817.000 km; ~14 km/pxl; med. phase, trailing side 2007 Sep 03 to 09: 8.6-0.7 km/pxl; very high phase, western Cassini Regio 2007 Sep 10: 480-10-540 m/pxl; targeted flyby, trailing side 2007 Sep 11 to 17: 0.7-7.1 km/pxl; low phase (~33 deg) trailing side 2007 Sep 27: 15 km/pxl, low phase sub-Saturn+trailing side 2007 Nov 26: 1.371.000 km; 8.2 km/pxl; very high phase, north pole, possibly graylight 2008 Feb 13: 2.045.000 km; 14 km/pxl; high phase, north pole, possibly graylight Days around Sep 10 belong to the targeted fly-by in about 1000 km distance, others will only be some OPNAVs. Bye. |
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TritonAntares Iapetus Far-Encounter between March 25 and April 18 2006 Mar 14 2006, 01:04 PM
Phil Stooke the latest batch of Iapetus images... I stacked fo... Apr 12 2006, 01:13 PM scalbers Greetings all,
I thought I'd mention my lates... Apr 12 2006, 07:57 PM Phil Stooke Here's a polar azimuthal equidistant projectio... Apr 12 2006, 08:27 PM Decepticon Looks like JPL is having a hard time getting the s... Apr 13 2006, 01:15 PM
TritonAntares QUOTE (Decepticon @ Apr 13 2006, 03:15 PM... Apr 13 2006, 01:39 PM Rob Pinnegar It's hard to say for sure, but my first guess ... Apr 13 2006, 03:06 PM Michael Capobianco QUOTE (Rob Pinnegar @ Apr 13 2006, 11:06 ... Apr 13 2006, 04:10 PM angel1801 QUOTE (Rob Pinnegar @ Apr 14 2006, 12:36 ... Apr 14 2006, 08:50 AM ugordan QUOTE (angel1801 @ Apr 14 2006, 09:50 AM)... Apr 14 2006, 09:32 AM angel1801 QUOTE (angel1801 @ Apr 14 2006, 06:20 PM)... Apr 14 2006, 12:41 PM Rob Pinnegar I don't see the "bending" you refer ... Apr 13 2006, 10:10 PM scalbers Greetings,
Nice to see all the updates and image ... Apr 14 2006, 11:31 PM tasp If I could field a question:
Does the ~14 degree ... Apr 15 2006, 04:04 AM BruceMoomaw Oh, yes, it precesses. (The similar precession of... Apr 15 2006, 06:41 AM tasp The earth's moon's orbital inclination (re... Apr 15 2006, 02:27 PM David QUOTE (tasp @ Apr 15 2006, 02:27 PM) Does... Apr 15 2006, 02:40 PM angel1801 I am here to tell you that lots of new Iapetus ima... Apr 15 2006, 06:56 PM Decepticon QUOTE they have finally achived some "saturns... Apr 15 2006, 11:09 PM angel1801 Looking really close to some of the over exposed ... Apr 16 2006, 06:05 AM scalbers Thought I'd mention my next Iapetus map iterat... Apr 18 2006, 06:15 PM angel1801 Some new Iapetus images are just in.
Distances a... Apr 19 2006, 02:09 PM scalbers Greetings,
Here's the next mapping update. Us... Apr 19 2006, 04:44 PM scalbers Looking ahead just a bit I see via Celestia that t... Apr 20 2006, 04:38 PM scalbers I enjoy seeing your illustrations Triton-Antares. ... Apr 20 2006, 06:43 PM tasp QUOTE (scalbers @ Apr 20 2006, 01:43 PM) ... Apr 21 2006, 01:01 AM ugordan QUOTE (tasp @ Apr 21 2006, 02:01 AM) Woul... Apr 21 2006, 07:14 AM Rob Pinnegar Just checking the 2007-10-09 flyby: As it happens,... Apr 20 2006, 09:23 PM scalbers Hello Triton-Antares,
An initial quick comment wo... Apr 22 2006, 02:35 PM Michael Capobianco Here are Saturn Viewer results for
April 1:
A... Apr 22 2006, 04:20 PM tasp TritonAntares, thanx for posting the equatorial wh... Apr 22 2006, 08:01 PM TritonAntares QUOTE (tasp @ Apr 22 2006, 10:01 PM) Sout... Apr 23 2006, 11:08 PM tasp My best response to your excellent point will be t... Apr 24 2006, 01:12 AM tasp I haven't really found (after a brief search) ... Apr 24 2006, 01:38 AM scalbers Triton-Antares,
If I can partly address this, I b... Apr 26 2006, 06:52 PM scalbers Triton-Antares,
I am gathering some additional ev... Apr 26 2006, 11:02 PM scalbers Yes, the terminator really brings out the shadows ... May 3 2006, 09:36 PM Phil Stooke I'll do a south polar view when I'm back i... May 4 2006, 07:04 PM scalbers Greetings,
I went ahead and set up a south polar ... May 12 2006, 11:26 PM Decepticon QUOTE Unfortunately minimum distance will only be ... May 20 2006, 04:01 AM scalbers Well Decepticon it could be useful, depending on w... May 20 2006, 03:52 PM BruceMoomaw Lovely piece of work. (And don't forget that ... May 23 2006, 01:28 AM scalbers Very interesting to learn more about the pattern o... May 23 2006, 05:06 PM ugordan I'd venture to say the image looks so funny, c... May 23 2006, 06:27 PM  |
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