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11:50 AM
I guess the euroswarm message can be unpinned.
"The european space agency will soon be launch a new mission".. uhm ya, replay. Its out these now spaceflightnowstream :)
 
 
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3:32 PM
@Hennes done.
 
:-)
They are still rerunning the same bloopers
 
@Tildal / @Pearson Should this be migrated to Astro?
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Q: Method to estimate asteroid density based on spectral type

AlanSEIt's easy to get spectral information about asteroids, from the JPL database for instance. They often have an albedo estimation, but almost never have a mass estimate (if you have albedo and mass, then you roughly have density). So the natural question is if we can just estimate density general...

@Donald might be interested too.
 
3:51 PM
@Undo Likely yes, but I wanna see @AlanSE's response... or more reviewers, but I'm not nuking it, it's not trolling or other kind of nonsense where it's clear it's OT
 
@TildalWave k
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A: Why did ISRO require additional tracking ships in the South Pacific for its MOM mission?

Undo                                                       ISRO's MOM lifting off (credit Universe Today). What it comes down to is that this launch went over the ocean - thereby creating a need for floating things to collect telemetry data. It's ground track looked like this:                         

^ I center my images like @Tildal does! Looky!
@Undo Meteorites don't fit in that scope. Lots of the relevant measurements were done by probes. But it's an amalgamation of several sources of information. — AlanSE 1 min ago
Yes - much astronomy is done through probes, but it's kind of like saying that bread should be on topic at a toaster site because toasters cook bread. Just my opinion. — Undo 57 secs ago
 
4:10 PM
TO bad I can not add a bounty on this. http://meta.space.stackexchange.com/questions/414/please-use-capitalisation-of-proper-nouns
A+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 
@Undo "creating a need for floating things to collect telemetry data"??
floating things?
@Undo nice image centering, yes LOL
 
@TildalWave Boatses.
There, edited.
 
@Undo there's a lot of floaty things somewhere around there in the Atlantic garbage patch ... Ocean gyre they call them
A gyre in oceanography is any large system of rotating ocean currents, particularly those involved with large wind movements. Gyres are caused by the Coriolis Effect; planetary vorticity along with horizontal and vertical friction, which determine the circulation patterns from the wind curl (torque). The term gyre can be used to refer to any type of vortex in the air or the sea, even one that is man-made, but it is most commonly used in oceanography to refer to the major ocean systems. Major gyres The following are the five most notable gyres: * Indian Ocean Gyre * North Atlantic Gyre...
rare few of them can track spaceships tho LOL
if any
@Undo Oh I didn't wanna imply there's something wrong with the answer... at least not because of that :P
joking
 
@TildalWave Nah :)
Wow, only 2.2k between us now. Eeeeeek!
 
Boats now? Really? vesselfinder.com/vessels/SCI-NALANDA-IMO-9575606-MMSI-419000126 One is only a 78 meter "boat" LOL
 
4:23 PM
You're going to make me get specific, aren't you? :P
There, that better?
;)
> What it comes down to is that this launch went over the ocean - thereby creating a need for man-made buoyant pieces of steel equipped with tracking devices to collect telemetry data. It's ground track looked like this:
 
buoyant pieces of steel
ROFL
 
Did I do it right? :P
 
Why do you ask me? You know I'll just make you edit it once more, no?
 
hides under Roc
You just want to make it CW, don't you!
Grrr.
 
4:41 PM
You're submitting new revisions, not me :P But yeah ... I'd count it as a personal success if I made you edit it so many times :))
 
 
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5:55 PM
perks up Did someone mention CW?
 
 
3 hours later…
8:40 PM
Darn. Edit post. spell check, tab to the wrong SE tab. Post as answer.
Luckily I noticed it in time to delete it.
 

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