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Palomar

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Re: The Love Asteroid

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=15567]Move over, Herbie <bump>

*Asteroid Eros and why it has few small craters.  Is the largest near-Earth asteroid.

Richardson concludes from modeling studies that seismic shaking has obliterated about 90 percent of the asteroid's small impact craters, those less than 100 meters in diameter, or roughly the length of a football field. The seismic vibrations result when Eros collides with space debris.

"Eros is only about the size of Lake Tahoe -- 20 miles (33 kilometers) long by 8 miles (13 kilometers) wide," Richardson said. "So it has a very small volume and a very low gravity. When a one-to-two-meter or larger object hits Eros, the impact will set off global seismic vibrations. Our analysis shows how these vibrations easily destabilize regolith overlaying the surface."

--Cindy

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GraemeSkinner

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Re: The Love Asteroid

For some reason I keep trying to get this threads title to fit the theme from Love Boat.

Seismic shaking on an asteroid sounds fun.

Graeme

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Palomar

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Re: The Love Asteroid

*Astropix has a lot of photos in its Archives pertaining to this asteroid:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001027.html]Scroll right and "fly over" 

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http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030301.html]Stereo Eros 

*Looks like you could just step into that photo frame and start walking on it.  ("Hey!  That'd make a great paperweight!")

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http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001026.html]Map of Eros

*Lots of names there.  Don Juan, Lolita, Narcissus, Cupid...yep, sounds about right.

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http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000829.html]Regolith of Eros

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http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apo … h?Eros]All entries for Eros at Astropix

*They repeat some of the entries. 

--Cindy

::EDIT::  Can't pass up posting this one specifically:  http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap0002 … art-shaped depression found on Eros  :laugh:  How very serendipitous.

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Commodore

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Re: The Love Asteroid

How much you want to bet that thing will be a honeymoon resort in a couple hundred years?

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John Creighton

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Re: The Love Asteroid

Related threads:

http://www.newmars.com/forums/viewtopic … ]ENCOUNTER WITH EROS: (THE NEAR-EARTH ASTEROID RENDEZVOUS MISSI)

http://www.newmars.com/forums/viewtopic … 541]Carbon and Asteroid Prospectors: (Economical Production in Space)

http://www.newmars.com/forums/viewtopic … 7]Resource Transport from asteroids to GEO (Technology and Economics)

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Palomar

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Re: The Love Asteroid

Related threads:

http://www.newmars.com/forums/viewtopic … ]ENCOUNTER WITH EROS: (THE NEAR-EARTH ASTEROID RENDEZVOUS MISSI)

*Yeah...and I started my thread 4 hours before you started yours.      :laugh:   :;):  Your thread focuses more on the mission itself (NEAR)...this one on the asteroid itself. 

I haven't been following the other two, and created this thread after reading the article in my initial post.

As for Commodore's comment (with a bit of inspiration from Graeme's post):

Love
Exciting and new
Come aboard
--We're expecting you! (exceptyourichpeoplewillhavetopayoutofyourownpocketsifsomethinggoeswrong...)

--Cindy

P.S.:  John, I was going to flag the entire Astropix selections of Eros at your thread...but then I thought it might get confusing (double post, similar topic).  So I'm glad you saw this.

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John Creighton

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Re: The Love Asteroid

Your thread focuses more on the mission itself (NEAR)...this one on the asteroid itself.

True. Anyway, I was just like to keep references to similar threads just incase one drops into the abyss but the other survives. Eros is quite an interesting asteroid too bad it is an S type asteroid and not a C type asteroid. But which thread best suits that comment. I thought I posted fist but I guess you beat me too it. Is this the first time a thread was started about EROS because didn’t the NEAR mission occur one year ago? Wow many probes maybe we should  have several folders for unmanned probes. One for the outer planets and moons, one for the inner planets and moons and one for asteroids.

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John Creighton

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Re: The Love Asteroid

Where does the name Eros come from? I think we should name more NEO's. Anything over 10 m across with a period between 0.5 and 2 years should have a name.

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Palomar

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Re: The Love Asteroid

I thought I posted first but I guess you beat me to it. Is this the first time a thread was started about EROS because didn’t the NEAR mission occur one year ago?

*Hi John:  http://near.jhuapl.edu/NEAR/news/sci_up … ]Touchdown date was February 2001.  New Mars Ikonboard didn't even exist then, in its present state at least (judging by Adrian's "Joined" date).

Anyway, I was just like to keep references to similar threads just incase one drops into the abyss but the other survives

*No problem (I couldn't resist ribbing you a bit is all.  I think it's cool this coincidence occurred).    Definitely a handy idea.

Where does the name Eros come from?

*Mythology; http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761 … .html]Eros.  I'm wondering why they named it Eros.  No problem with that though, and the fact it's got a heart-shaped depression on it makes it even niftier.

--Cindy 

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--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)