Re: [meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia

2010-07-12 Thread Carl 's
Hi Sterling, Looking at thes pictures, Lucretia does look smooth with the exception of a few small (more recent) craters near the top. http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/SEM44DZOFBG_index_1.html Carl2 Sterling wrote: ...If the impactor was weak and Lutetia was strong, the tilty impact slow,

Re: [meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia

2010-07-11 Thread Darren Garrison
Full resolution photos: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEM44DZOFBG_0.html My favorite is the one with Saturn in the background-- you can make out just a hint of the rings. If only there had been more megapixels to throw at the shot. It is a little more clear in negative:

Re: [meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia

2010-07-11 Thread Kashuba
] On Behalf Of Darren Garrison Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 9:35 AM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia Full resolution photos: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEM44DZOFBG_0.html My favorite is the one with Saturn

Re: [meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia

2010-07-10 Thread lebofsky
-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia Hi Jason: The asteroids that are spectrally similar to carbonaceous chondrites (CI and CM) are B-, C-, and G-class asteroids. The density of Ceres is about 2 grams/cc and I think that they range up to about 2.5 grams/cc. Many Cs have densities lower

Re: [meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia

2010-07-10 Thread Darren Garrison
The photo: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/asteroid-lutetia-spacecraft-flyby-100710.html __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia

2010-07-10 Thread Gary Fujihara
There is also a webcast here: http://thilinaheenatigala.blogspot.com/2010/07/watch-live-webcast-of-esas-rosetta.html On Jul 10, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Darren Garrison wrote: The photo: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/asteroid-lutetia-spacecraft-flyby-100710.html

Re: [meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia

2010-07-10 Thread Richard Kowalski
: [meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Saturday, July 10, 2010, 3:01 PM The photo: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/asteroid-lutetia-spacecraft-flyby-100710.html __ Visit the Archives

Re: [meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia

2010-07-10 Thread Gary Fujihara
I have also posted some of the images released by the Rosetta science team on my Facebook site, accessible by anyone. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2070158id=1394318075l=f266a08b02 gary On Jul 10, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Darren Garrison wrote: The photo:

[meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia

2010-07-09 Thread Ron Baalke
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=47389 Rosetta flyby of asteroid (21) Lutetia Euoprean Space Agency July 9, 2010 Discovered in Paris by Hermann Goldschmidt in November 1852, asteroid (21) Lutetia has been a cosmic riddle for astronomers. In an attempt to pin down

Re: [meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia

2010-07-09 Thread Jason Utas
Hola, We seem to have a bit of a problem... The article seems to suggest that carbonaceous chondrites have a density between nearly 4 and 5 grams per cubic centimeter. Might anyone on the list be willing to comment on this slight discrepancy? A team of researchers used the VLT and Keck telescopes

Re: [meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia

2010-07-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, July 09, 2010 5:49 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia Hola, We seem to have a bit of a problem... The article seems to suggest that carbonaceous chondrites have a density between nearly 4 and 5 grams per cubic centimeter. Might anyone on the list be willing

Re: [meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia

2010-07-09 Thread Rob Matson
-list Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia The density of Lutetia in the most recent determination is 5.55 +/- 0.88, or between 4.67 and 6.43. Complete data can be found at: http://home.earthlink.net/~jimbaer1/astmass.txt The dimensions of Lutetia have been calculated

Re: [meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia

2010-07-09 Thread lebofsky
Hi Jason: The asteroids that are spectrally similar to carbonaceous chondrites (CI and CM) are B-, C-, and G-class asteroids. The density of Ceres is about 2 grams/cc and I think that they range up to about 2.5 grams/cc. Many Cs have densities lower than 2, which probably indicates that they are

Re: [meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia

2010-07-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
: Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 10:30 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia Hi Jason: The asteroids that are spectrally similar to carbonaceous chondrites (CI and CM) are B-, C-, and G-class asteroids. The density