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[meteorite-list] Responding to Potential Asteroid Redirect Mission Targets
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-052 Responding to Potential Asteroid Redirect Mission Targets Jet Propulsion Laboratory February 14, 2014 One year ago, on Feb. 15, 2013, the world was witness to the dangers presented by near-Earth Objects (NEOs) when a relatively small asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere, exploding over Chelyabinsk, Russia, and releasing more energy than a large atomic bomb. Tracking near-Earth asteroids has been a significant endeavor for NASA and the broader astronomical community, which has discovered 10,713 known near-Earth objects to date. NASA is now pursuing new partnerships and collaborations in an Asteroid Grand Challenge to accelerate NASA's existing planetary defense work, which will help find all asteroid threats to human population and know what to do about them. In parallel, NASA is developing an Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) -- a first-ever mission to identify, capture and redirect an asteroid to a safe orbit of Earth's moon for future exploration by astronauts in the 2020s. ARM will use capabilities in development, including the new Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and high-power Solar Electric Propulsion. All are critical components of deep-space exploration and essential to meet NASA's goal of sending humans to Mars in the 2030s. The mission represents an unprecedented technological feat, raising the bar for human exploration and discovery, while helping protect our home planet and bringing us closer to a human mission to one of these intriguing objects. NASA is assessing two concepts to robotically capture and redirect an asteroid mass into a stable orbit around the moon. In the first proposed concept, NASA would capture and redirect an entire very small asteroid. In the alternative concept, NASA would retrieve a large, boulder-like mass from a larger asteroid and return it to this same lunar orbit. In both cases, astronauts aboard an Orion spacecraft would then study the redirected asteroid mass in the vicinity of the moon and bring back samples. Very few known near-Earth objects are ARM candidates. Most known asteroids are too big to be fully captured and have orbits unsuitable for a spacecraft to redirect them into orbit around the moon. Some are so distant when discovered that their size and makeup are difficult for even our most powerful telescopes to discern. Still others could be potential targets, but go from newly discovered to out of range of our telescopes so quickly there is not enough time to observe them adequately. For the small asteroids that do closely approach Earth, NASA's Near-Earth Object Program has developed a rapid response system whose chief goal is to mobilize NEO-observing assets when an asteroid first appears that could qualify as a potential candidate for the ARM mission. There are other elements involved, but if size were the only factor, we'd be looking for an asteroid smaller than about 40 feet (12 meters) across, said Paul Chodas, a senior scientist in the Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. There are hundreds of millions of objects out there in this size range, but they are small and don't reflect a lot of sunlight, so they can be hard to spot. The best time to discover them is when they are brightest, when they are close to Earth. Asteroids are discovered by small, dedicated teams of astronomers using optical telescopes that repeatedly scan the sky looking for star-like objects, which change location in the sky slightly over the course of an hour or so. Asteroid surveys detect hundreds of such moving objects in a single night, but only a fraction of these will turn out to be new discoveries. The coordinates of detected moving objects are passed along to the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., which either identifies each as a previously known object or assigns it a new designation. The observations are collated and then electronically published, along with an estimate of the object's orbit and intrinsic brightness. Automatic systems at NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at JPL take the Minor Planet Center data, compute refined orbit and brightness estimates, and update its online small-body database. A new screening process for the asteroid redirect mission has been set up which regularly checks the small-body database, looking for potential new candidates for the ARM mission. If an asteroid looks as if it could meet the criteria of size and orbit, our automated system sends us an email with the subject 'New ARM Candidate,' said Chodas. When that happens, and it has happened several dozen times since we implemented the system in March of 2013, I know we'll have a busy day. Remember, things have to happen quickly because these small NEOs are only visible to even the most powerful of telescopes for a short period of a few days during their flyby of Earth. After
[meteorite-list] AD: Meteorite Auctions Ending Tomorrow
Dear List Members, I have a smörgåsbord of meteorite auctions ending tomorrow: http://www.ebay.com/sch/historic-meteorites/m.html Thanks for looking and have a great weekend! Mike -- Mike Bandli Historic Meteorites www.HistoricMeteorites.com and join us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/Meteorites1 IMCA #5765 --- __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] China's Lunar Rover Wakes Up After Near-Death Experience
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/china/change3/140214wakeup/ Lunar rover wakes up after near-death experience BY STEPHEN CLARK SPACEFLIGHT NOW February 14, 2014 China's Yutu moon rover woke up this week and radioed Earth after worries the mobile research platform would succumb to frigid temperatures during the two-week lunar night, but officials say the robot is still malfunctioning. Yutu has come back to life, said Pei Zhaoyu, a spokesman with the Chinese lunar program, in a report by the government-sanctioned Xinhua news agency. Ground controllers confirmed they received signals from the rover Wednesday, two days after the rover's scheduled wakeup. The rover was struck by a mechanical anomaly before nightfall Jan. 25, forcing the craft to go into sleep mode without proper precautions against nighttime temperatures reaching as low as minus 180 degrees Celsius, or minus 292 degrees Fahrenheit. State media did not describe details of the problem, and Xinhua reported Thursday engineers are still trying to identify the cause of the technical glitch, which left many observers concerned the roving explorer would not wake up. The rover, dubbed Yutu or jade rabbit, is designed to hibernate during lunar nights, when the sun slips below the horizon for two weeks and temperatures plunge cold enough to damage sensitive electronic circuits and avionics systems inside the spacecraft. During hibernation, Yutu is unable to charge its batteries or communicate with Earth. Chinese designers installed small radioisotope heaters fueled by plutonium to keep critical components warm at night. Before each sunset, Yutu is supposed to retract its camera mast and fold two solar panels over the rover's body. Unconfirmed reports by Chinese space analysts indicate something went wrong with one of the solar panels as Yutu prepared for night. Now that it is still alive, the rover stands a chance of being saved, Pei said in a report by Xinhua. Yutu was designed to operate on the moon for three months. The rover touched down Dec. 14 and drove off its four-legged landing platform to begin exploring the bleak, cratered terrain in the moon's Mare Imbrium region, one of the dark spots on the moon as seen from Earth. The rover has logged about 100 meters, more than 300 feet, of driving since the mid-December landing. Controllers spent the initial days of the mission using the lander and rover to take pictures of each other. Yutu used a mechanical scoop to sample the lunar soil earlier this month, according to state media, and it studied the moon's underground structure with a ground-penetrating radar. The robot used X-ray and near-infrared spectrometers to measure the composition of lunar rocks. Engineers also established a radio communications link between the four-foot-tall rover and its stationary landing platform. Chinese media have reported no problems with the four-legged lander other than the failure of its main camera, which was only designed to function for a few weeks. The Chang'e 3 lander has its own suite of instruments including an ultraviolet telescope to observe Earth's plasmasphere and conduct the first long-term astronomical observations from the lunar surface. Yutu is part of China's third lunar mission. Named Chang'e 3, the project achieved the first soft landing on the moon since 1976 and followed two Chinese lunar orbiters launched in 2007 and 2010. __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Happy Birthday Chelyabinsk
Today is the 1st anniversary of the Chelyabinsk fall. :) Time flies fast. It seems just like yesterday that everyone was glued to YouTube watching shockwave videos. Best regards, MikeG -- - Web - http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone Twitter - http://twitter.com/galacticstone Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/galacticstone - __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Happy Birthday Chelyabinsk AND Bachmut
200 - 1 Бахмут- Челябинск Feb. 15 Feb. 15 1814 - 2013 48° 36'N, 38° 0'E - 54° 49'N, 61° 7'E Bachmut (L6) - Chelyabinsk (LL5) Ukraine - Russia ;-) Gesendet: Samstag, 15. Februar 2014 um 21:38 Uhr Von: Galactic Stone Ironworks meteoritemike@gmail.cmeteorite-list@meteoritecentom An: Meteorite List ral.com Betreff: [meteorite-list] Happy Birthday Chelyabinsk Today is the 1st anniversary of the Chelyabinsk fall. :) Time flies fast. It seems just like yesterday that everyone was glued to YouTube watching shockwave videos. Best regards, MikeG -- - Web - http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone[http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone] Twitter - http://twitter.com/galacticstone[http://twitter.com/galacticstone] Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/galacticstone[http://pinterest.com/galacticstone] - __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com[http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com] Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list[http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list] __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Met Bulletin Update - Chile, NWA, USA, and Qatar
Hi Bulletin Watchers, There are 9 new approved meteorites. All are OC's of various types. Link - http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?sea=sfor=namesants=falls=valids=stype=containslrec=50map=gebrowse=country=Allsrt=namecateg=Allmblist=Allrect=phot=snew=1pnt=Normal%20tabledr=page=0 Best regards and happy huntings, MikeG -- - Web - http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone Twitter - http://twitter.com/galacticstone Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/galacticstone - __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] AD-Over 40 Must See Auctions!
All of the auctions can be seen here: http://stores.ebay.com/Mile-High-Meteorites/ Some highlights... Amazing 1.6 kilo Anvil Taza http://www.ebay.com/itm/251447116872?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649 Complete slice of NWA 7493 Lunar http://www.ebay.com/itm/251446990229?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649 Complete slice of NWA 8182 Lunar that looks like Calcalong Creek http://www.ebay.com/itm/221371138466?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649 1.28g crusted NWA 6963 Shergottite http://www.ebay.com/itm/221373030097?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649 NWA 7755 Lherzolitic Shergottite complete slice http://www.ebay.com/itm/251449105169?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649 Crusted slice of Homestead Iowa http://www.ebay.com/itm/251449087807?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649 6 gram slice of Estherville Iowa http://www.ebay.com/itm/251448206669?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649 Offers certainly considered. Thanks, Matt Morgan Mile High Meteorites __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
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Dear List Members, in around 24 hours ending some interesting auctions on ebay. From Maslyanino to a Big 2.2kg NWA individual…all is available. Here you can find all auctions: http://stores.ebay.com/Mirko-Graul-Meteorite/_i.html?rt=nc_sid=18192829_sticky=1_trksid=p4634.c0.m14_sop=1_sc=1 and the MASLYANINO slices and all other offers you can find here: http://stores.ebay.com/Mirko-Graul-Meteorite/_i.html?rt=nc_sc=1_sid=18192829_sticky=1_trksid=p4634.c0.m14_sop=12_sc=1 Best regards Mirko Mirko Graul Meteorite Quittenring.4 16321 Bernau GERMANY Phone: 0049-1724105015 E-Mail: m_gr...@yahoo.de WEB: www.meteorite-mirko.de Member of The Meteoritical Society (International Society for Meteoritics and Planetery Science) IMCA-Member: 2113 (International Meteorite Collectors Association) __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Bassikounou Contributed by: Tomasz Jakubowski http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
