July 13, 2010
Osama bin Laden and BP working together?
Osama bin Laden and BP working together?
Fact bin Laden Calls for US Soft Under Belly to be hit
Fact BP pays fees to free Libyan Lockerbie terrorist out of jail
Fact BP toys around with oil spill (mystery how that happen and under the noses of US Government) while the US President plays house
Fact BP has new lease for Libyan Oil developmentSpeculation or ?
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Heavy Metal Rock Takes Center Stage
reference http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/rosetta20100709.html
Update 7-10-2010: The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft completed a close flyby of the asteroid Lutetia on Saturday, July 10. The estimated time of the flyby was 12:10 p.m. Eastern Time.
PASADENA, Calif. -- On its way to a 2014 rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, with NASA instruments aboard, will fly past asteroid Lutetia this Saturday, July 10.
The instruments aboard Rosetta will record the first close-up image of a metal asteroid. They will also make measurements to help scientists derive the mass of the object, understand the properties of the asteroid's surface crust, record the solar wind in the vicinity and look for evidence of an atmosphere. The spacecraft will pass the asteroid at a minimum distance of 3,160 kilometers (1,950 miles) and at a velocity of 15 kilometers (9 miles) per second.
"Little is known about asteroid Lutetia other than it is about 100 kilometers (62 miles) wide," said Claudia Alexander, project scientist for the U.S. role in the Rosetta mission, from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Allowing Rosetta's suite of science instruments to focus on this target of opportunity should greatly expand our knowledge of this huge space rock, while at the same time giving the mission's science instruments a real out-of-this-world workout."
Previous images of Lutetia were taken by ground-based telescopes and show only hints of the asteroid’s shape. Lutetia will be the second asteroid to receive the full attention of Rosetta and its instruments. The spacecraft previously flew within 800 kilometers (500 miles) of asteroid Steins in September of 2008. The Lutetia flyby is the final scientific milestone for Rosetta before controllers put the spacecraft into hibernation early in 2011, only to wake up in early 2014 for approach to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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