Rosetta Space Asteroid Probe Report Plus Misinformation Alien "Leek"

[Mrs. Sharon B. Hodge]

Rosetta Space Asteroid Probe Report


September 04, 2008 - A video by ESA regarding the Rosetta probe's encounter with the asteroid Steins, 'Asteroid Steins belongs to the rare, largely unknown intermediate E-class, very bright and probably with a much-weathered surface. Steins' orbit was only known from ground observations, so Rosetta is conducting Europe's first-ever optical tracking campaign, providing highly accurate position data to Flight Dynamics specialists who are planning a series of trajectory corrections for an accurate fly-by.
For over a year, Rosetta scientists and leading asteroid experts have been planning this encounter, and all the probe's science instruments will be active at some point in the fly-by Reception of the first images is expected at the European Space Operations Centre some two hours after the encounter on 5 September 2008


A Feb. 25, 2007 file photo shows mission specialists at the ESA European Space Operation Center (ESOC) in Darmstadt, southwestern Germany, operating the Rosetta probe during it's fly-by of planet Mars. European Space Agency ESA scientists are preparing for the first fly-by of an asteroid by their deep-space explorer, Rosetta, on a mission to solve the mystery of the birth of the solar system.
Rosetta is set to rendezvous with the Steins asteroid, also known as Asteroid 2867, just before 1900 GMT on Friday, Sept 5, 2008 at a distance of just less than 500 miles (800 kilometers)

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Spacecraft flies by remote asteroid, camera stops
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By KATRIN SCHIEFER and GEORGE FREY, Associated Press Writers
Sat Sep 6, 9:51 AM ET

DARMSTADT, Germany - The European deep space probe Rosetta successfully completed a flyby of an asteroid millions of miles from earth, but its high resolution camera stopped shortly before the closest pass, space officials said Saturday

Rosetta caught up with the Steins asteroid, also known as Asteroid 2867, just after 8:45 p.m. (1845 GMT) Friday in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
The probe came within 500 miles (805 kilometers) of the asteroid — which turned out to be slightly larger than scientists expected

Officials at the European Space Agency were not sure exactly what caused the camera to balk

"The software switched off automatically," Gerhard Schwehm, the ESA mission manager and head of solar systems science operations told The Associated Press.
"The camera has some software limits and we'll analyze why this happened later"

Another wide angle camera was able to take pictures and send them to the space center, Schwehm said

At a news conference, Uwe Keller, the principal camera investigator, said despite the camera turning off about nine minutes before its closest approach, it switched back on again later and was now working well.
Keller said he did not expect the camera setback to affect the rest of the mission

Craters of different ages were found on the surface of the gray-colored asteroid, showing a "rich collisional history," Keller said

The probe recorded more than 23 craters over 200 meters wide, with the biggest being about 1.
2 miles (2 kilometers) wide

According to measurements by the probe, the diamond-shaped asteroid turned out to be 3.1 miles (5 kilometers) in diameter, slightly larger than an earlier estimate of 3 miles (4.
8 kilometers)

The Rosetta craft was launched in March 2004 from French Guyana, and is now about 250 million miles (402 million kilometers) from Earth

Schwehm said the historic mission could give astronomers crucial clues to help them understand the creation of the solar system

"Dead rocks can say a lot," he said

Rita Schulz, a Rosetta project scientist, said data from asteroids and comets was particularly valuable because they are made of galactic matter that helped create the planets in our solar system

"Asteroids are a sort of memory, or the DNA, of the solar system," Schulz said

Up until now, astronomers analyzing asteroids have had to work with limited data from brief flybys, such as when ESA's Giotto probe swept by Halley's Comet in 1986, photographing long canyons, broad craters and 3,000-foot (1000-meter) hills

As planned, the Rosetta lost its signal to Earth for about an hour-and-a-half Friday night as engineers turned it away from the sun and the craft zoomed through space too fast for its antennae to transmit any signal

At 10:15 p.
m (2015 GMT) Friday the craft resumed transmission, signaling that the exercise was largely successful — news cheered by ESA engineers and technicians

Yet there was another setback Friday night as data was sent to antenna stations far from Europe

A NASA laboratory in Goldstone, California was having problems cooling one of its antennas in the summer heat and had to switch the ESA project to another antenna, delaying the analysis of some data by several hours

Rosetta data was also transmitted to an antenna in New Norcia, western Australia

Data from its working camera was being processed Saturday at the Max Planck Institute in Lindau, southern Germany, while further infrared data collected by the probe was being analyzed at the Instituto Nacionale di Astrofisica in Rome

The Steins asteroid was Rosetta's first scientific target as it enters the asteroid belt en route to its destination, the comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Rosetta is scheduled to reach the comet in 2014

Between now and then it will perform some gravitational experiments before going into hibernation, Schwehm said

The European Space Agency is supported by 17 countries including Germany, France, Ireland and the Netherlands. It cooperates with NASA, the European Union, European national space agencies and international partners.
It's expected the ESA will become the European Union space agency in the near future.


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