NASA Probe to Uncover Secrets of Brightest Asteroid Vesta

[link to www.space.com]

Comet's Death by Sun Photographed for First Time

[link to www.space.com]
amazing picture.

video of the comet hitting the sun.
[link to www.space.com]

WOW

when is it expected to make its closest approach?

SweeeeeT:)

[link to www.nakedeyeplanets.com]

This charts the asteroids path.

naked eye visibility is:
Jul 13-Aug 24 -43 days
should look great with the GLP observatory.

2011 Aug 5 distance from:
earth-1.229 AU
sun - 2.240 AU

1 AU (Astronomical Unit) = 149,597,870 kms (92,955,807 statute miles)

I meant the probe in relationship to the asteroid.

When NASA's Dawn probe enters into orbit around Vesta on July 15 — the first spacecraft to visit the 330-mile-wide (530-kilometer) protoplanet — it promises to shed light on the many enigmas of the second-largest body in the asteroid belt.

July 15?
Isn't that today?

what are the chances it hits earth?

I don't believe the chances are that great,if any.
if they can send a probe there, then they can get bruce willis to sort it out :)

I believe it is,yes.

Nah, they should send Arnold.
He could "Huff and'a puff and'a breik ze huol azterioid duon".

Last Edited by sgtbaker on 07/15/2011 02:46 PM

GLP observatory hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
do you really think it will be pointed any asteroid or elenin/ nibiru/ planetx NOT A FOOKING CHANCE

cool

Nasa===

Very cool!

Its a pretty weird asteroid thats for sure.

The guy who I bought my piece of Tatahouine meteorite from, well I dont know how they did it but the pictures of it on the site looked like bright green crystals and rock.

Its one of the meteorites classed as from Vesta

[link to www.spacerocksuk.com]
[link to www.imca.cc]
[link to 207.56.99.163]

Last Edited by Fhirinne on 07/15/2011 08:08 PM

Heres a dedicated page for the dawn probe.

[link to dawn.jpl.nasa.gov]


Includes the latest pic taken on july 9th

wow, a 33.3kb highest resolution image of this 'asteroid'...

They really know how to spoil us!

I'm wetting my pants in excitement...

Bright green minerals suggest Olivine, a mineral that occurs in the mantle here on Earth. Another bright green mineral is Malachite, an oxide of Copper. The first would be the most likely because Vesta probably is the remnant of a much larger body that was disrupted in the early days of the solar system.
Before that happened it differentiated into layers of dense and light minerals.
If the mineral is malachite then Vesta was a part of a body large enough for liquid water with dissolved oxygen before it's breakup. The rupture was most likely by collision with another object.

and it's in black and white too! CONTAIN YOUR ORGASMS!

Theres no spare money to waste on a decent camera.

zero.

Posted yesterday and quite interesting.
Thread: Scientists: Ceres and Vesta Have Noticeable Effects on the Earth!

From Astronomy & Astrophysics: [link to www.aanda.org]

Strong chaos induced by close encounters with Ceres and Vesta

Ceres and Vesta gravitationally interact with the Earth, whose orbit also becomes unpredictable after only 60 million years. This means that the Earth's eccentricity, which affects the large climatic variations on its surface, cannot be traced back more than 60 million years ago. This is indeed bad news for Paleoclimate studies.

God Dammmit!!!

Fucking Kryptonite.



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