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Apophis Tracking Mission
gndonald
post Oct 25 2006, 10:32 AM
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The most recent (Nov/Dec 2006) issue of 'Australian Sky & Telescope' has an article discussing the possible impact of the asteroid 'Apophis' in 2036. One thing mentioned in the article caught my eye.

This was that NASA had been ordered to plan a mission to asteroid launching sometime in 2013, with the intention of planting a radio tracking beacon on it, so that it's orbit could be plotted as accurately as possible.

Has anything official been released about this and does anyone have information on just what sort of a mission they are looking at. Are they just going to send a tracking beacon or are they considering getting some science out of this as well?

(I know that the Wikipedia article states that the risk is 'minimal' but I'm still interested in knowing what, if anything was (or still is) being planned.)
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- gndonald   Apophis Tracking Mission   Oct 25 2006, 10:32 AM
- - climber   gndonald, Quite some infos there : http://www.pla...   Oct 25 2006, 10:56 AM
|- - Paolo   QUOTE (climber @ Oct 25 2006, 12:56 PM) g...   Oct 25 2006, 06:26 PM
- - tasp   The laser ranging experiments done with the retror...   Oct 26 2006, 03:24 AM
|- - Comga   QUOTE (tasp @ Oct 25 2006, 09:24 PM) Woul...   Oct 30 2006, 06:35 AM
- - SigurRosFan   New article: - Planetary Society Offers $50,...   Dec 14 2006, 05:41 PM
- - PhilCo126   Tagged or untagged, I guess astronomers all over t...   Jan 17 2007, 04:28 PM
|- - Comga   QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Jan 17 2007, 09:28 AM)...   Jan 18 2007, 03:33 AM
|- - Pavel   QUOTE (Comga @ Jan 17 2007, 10:33 PM) By ...   Feb 16 2007, 04:25 PM
- - nprev   Actually, the current data indicates that the most...   Jan 18 2007, 05:00 AM
|- - Comga   QUOTE (nprev @ Jan 17 2007, 10:00 PM) Act...   Jan 19 2007, 05:40 AM
|- - tty   QUOTE (nprev @ Jan 18 2007, 06:00 AM) an ...   Feb 16 2007, 06:58 PM
- - nprev   I didn't mean to imply that a beacon mission s...   Jan 19 2007, 07:12 AM
|- - dilo   QUOTE (nprev @ Jan 19 2007, 08:12 AM) Fra...   Feb 16 2007, 12:14 PM
- - Thu   I'm really interested in the competition and I...   Feb 16 2007, 04:27 AM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (Thu @ Feb 16 2007, 04:27 AM) Btw, ...   Feb 16 2007, 01:16 PM
- - Thu   Finally, I'm done! Just submitted the Apo...   Sep 1 2007, 04:46 AM
|- - Paolo   QUOTE (Thu @ Sep 1 2007, 06:46 AM) Finall...   Sep 1 2007, 07:37 AM
- - nprev   Congrats on your proposal, Thu! Unfortunatel...   Sep 1 2007, 05:47 AM
|- - tty   QUOTE (nprev @ Sep 1 2007, 07:47 AM) TTY:...   Sep 1 2007, 06:57 PM
- - nprev   Sorry, Thu; I was stuck in stupid mode all day yes...   Sep 1 2007, 01:27 PM
- - Phil Stooke   tty said: "Also the IR radiation from an atm...   Sep 1 2007, 02:35 PM
- - Thu   Thank you nprev and Paolo for your praise. Initial...   Sep 4 2007, 03:52 AM
|- - nprev   QUOTE (Thu @ Sep 3 2007, 08:52 PM) Initia...   Sep 5 2007, 01:48 PM
|- - Thu   QUOTE (nprev @ Sep 5 2007, 08:48 PM) Thin...   Sep 12 2007, 06:27 PM
|- - Thu   A quick update for anybody interested in the Apoph...   Dec 23 2007, 04:34 AM
- - ngunn   Thu, I enjoyed reading your proposal, which seems ...   Sep 5 2007, 12:33 PM
|- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (ngunn @ Sep 5 2007, 05:33 AM) Perh...   Sep 5 2007, 03:11 PM
- - ngunn   That would be great, thanks Emily. I'm glad qu...   Sep 5 2007, 03:16 PM
- - nprev   Great video, Thu!!! You're rapidl...   Dec 24 2007, 01:34 AM
- - PhilCo126   TPS talked about an announcement in January 2008.....   Feb 6 2008, 06:18 PM
- - elakdawalla   Sorry about the delay; we want to make sure the ju...   Feb 6 2008, 06:30 PM
- - elakdawalla   Planetary Society Names Winners of $50,000 As...   Feb 26 2008, 06:40 PM
- - djellison   Ahh - great reading. I'm particularly interes...   Feb 26 2008, 08:03 PM
|- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (djellison @ Feb 26 2008, 12:03 PM)...   Feb 26 2008, 08:23 PM
- - nprev   Absolutely. As an incipient geezer, it's all t...   Feb 26 2008, 08:12 PM
|- - Thu   QUOTE (nprev @ Feb 27 2008, 03:12 AM) I a...   Mar 2 2008, 02:01 PM
- - As old as Voyager   Looking at the graphic on Emily's TPS blog, Ap...   Feb 27 2008, 08:00 PM
|- - DDAVIS   Does anyone know how close it could get to the Moo...   Feb 27 2008, 09:42 PM
|- - dilo   QUOTE (As old as Voyager @ Feb 27 2008, 09...   Mar 3 2008, 06:16 PM
- - nprev   No, it's not at all, especially considering th...   Mar 3 2008, 12:51 AM
- - akuo   Strange news article about 99942 Apophis circulati...   Apr 16 2008, 10:34 AM
- - nprev   Hmm...dunno, sounds screwed up to me. Looks like h...   Apr 16 2008, 11:33 AM
- - mps   It's in the news in Estonia already... Why don...   Apr 16 2008, 12:48 PM
- - jamescanvin   <Sigh> This story still seems to be popping ...   Apr 16 2008, 01:41 PM
- - nprev   Looks like this story is dying on its own...no men...   Apr 16 2008, 07:29 PM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (nprev @ Apr 16 2008, 08:29 PM) Dar...   Apr 16 2008, 09:17 PM
- - nprev   Oh, if only sense was that common, Nigel...   Apr 16 2008, 09:55 PM
- - Pavel   NASA Statement on Student Asteroid Calculations ht...   Apr 16 2008, 11:33 PM
- - nprev   Thanks, Pavel. Trying to figure out why the ex...   Apr 17 2008, 12:08 AM
- - dmuller   Phew ... well we can trust NASA on that, can't...   Apr 20 2008, 06:45 AM
- - PhilCo126   So we had three winners in the Apophis tracking mi...   Jun 5 2008, 07:51 PM
- - elakdawalla   A-Track. See http://www.planetary.org/programs/pr...   Jun 5 2008, 10:55 PM
- - PhilCo126   Thanks Emily, I surely hope that The Planetary Soc...   Jun 9 2008, 05:39 PM
- - elakdawalla   I'm afraid that wasn't the point of this c...   Jun 10 2008, 03:37 AM
- - PhilCo126   O.K. anyway Apophis has already lost its "doo...   Oct 19 2008, 01:38 PM
- - ups   Any new information on a possible mission to Apoph...   Jan 18 2009, 02:53 PM
- - hendric   Could Apophis be imaged by any of the geostationar...   Jan 19 2009, 05:02 PM
- - nprev   I dunno, man. Most if not all spacecraft in GEO th...   Jan 19 2009, 06:07 PM
- - Paolo   Russia may send spacecraft to knock away asteroid ...   Dec 30 2009, 05:13 PM
- - hendric   While a tagging mission tells us where Apophis wil...   Dec 30 2009, 05:29 PM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   Apophis is schedueled for additional radar ranging...   Dec 30 2009, 08:58 PM
- - nprev   I can see some rationale for this mission as a tec...   Dec 30 2009, 09:10 PM
- - vjkane   QUOTE (nprev @ Dec 30 2009, 09:10 PM) I c...   Dec 30 2009, 10:57 PM
- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (vjkane @ Dec 30 2009, 02:57 PM) C...   Dec 31 2009, 12:00 AM
- - vjkane   QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Dec 31 2009, 12:00 A...   Dec 31 2009, 01:00 AM

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