| Tuesday | 19 October 2004 | 2:23pm MDT | 2004-10-19 UTC 2023 |
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News briefs
Meteor news: Australian Broadcasting has an item today about the Desert Fireball Network on the Nullarbor Plain that will employ a network of all-sky cameras to collect fireball orbital data and to locate any surviving meteorites, with the intent being to trace these samples back to specific asteroids. National Geographic has an article from yesterday about this week's peak in the annual Orionid meteor shower. Bits & pieces: The journal Nature has an article from yesterday, “Unseen comets may raise impact risk for Earth,” which is its second on a controversial theory about the existence of ultra-dark objects in the outer Solar System (see news thread, “Bits & pieces”). News.com.au has an article today from The Australian about access in Australian schools to the Charles Sturt University (CSU) robotic telescope at Bathurst Observatory in New South Wales using a 12-km. (7.5-mile) wireless connection. See also a 12 October |
The Asteroid/Comet Connection's Today's issue status: done
CSU news release. The observatory also has radio telescopes and a radio meteor detector. Rosetta news: The Rosetta mission has a status report from yesterday for 8-15 October telling that “the last block of Lander commissioning activities was completed successfully,” but final commissioning for the comet orbiter's ROSINA spectrometer was cancelled while the instrument is investigated. During the period “the spacecraft spent most of the time in contact with the ground, using DSN passes during the day and New Norcia during the night” to permit “an intense and ambitious operations plan.” |
