Rosetta Comet chaser closing in- *** GLP has discovered a new asteroid - New picture page 7, no name yet, share your thoughts ***

Good idea, but surely you need something near Rosetta, Memphis is taken but you could have Abukir or Alexandria.

K

This is best appreciated in full screen HD




[link to www.youtube.com]

K

Wormwood has a nice ring to it. Thoughts?

You can see a simulation of Dr Astro's new asteroid by using this website

[link to www.asterank.com]

near the top centre of the screen you will see the the link to "plot a custom orbit"

You are presented with a dialogue box with eight values to fill in. Here are the numbers you should enter, in descending order.

3.11599411
0.2618728
10.87934
299
335.07559
0.01356
2456801.5
2008.82

You don't seem to be able to be able to produce a link from here and the program is a little buggy, but you should see the orbit simulated.

When you are done look at the other options like 3d view, exoplanets and dark matter.

K

CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN.

tumortsa


(astromut backwards.)

Tumor and TSA? Doesn't sound very pleasant

(I would still go with "tard"!)

Rosetta has to perform a number of manoeuvres in order to get in the correct position and velocity to be captured by the comets gravity.



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Once in orbit it will scan the comets surface with a number of instruments.



[link to www.youtube.com]

So no comet sceptics out there then ?

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is it named yet?

I'm with Kip. Has it been officially cataloged yet?

No word from the MPC. They don't seem to have done anything with the observations I sent, including some of a known asteroid. No response. Maybe I'll see something in the next MPC circular.

Ok. We'll just have to wait then. Notice I didn't say "wait patiently"

did you pick a name yet?

Last Edited by KipKat on 05/31/2014 07:06 PM

The last I heard was he was going to call it Rosetta.

Rosetta completed big burn number 2 on Wednesday, I wasn't able to post here.

[link to blogs.esa.int]

Here are some of Rosetta's pictures

[link to www.esa.int]

Rosetta has now closed to within 1 lunar distance from comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, the next burn is scheduled for the 18h.

K

Where is Rosetta?, here it is.

[link to sci.esa.int]

Very close now, soon....

From link-

ROSETTA COMET IS A CONTACT BINARY
"This could present some interesting challenges for Philae, the probe's lander, which is slated to touch down on the comet's surface in early November."



[link to spaceweather.com]

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[link to sci.esa.int]