HomeHow does Lutetia compare to the other asteroids and comets visited by spacecraft?
The Planetary Society's Emily Lakdawalla has posted an excellent, updated "Comets and Asteroids" poster showing, to scale, all such bodies visited by spacecraft so far.
The latest addition is, of course, 21 Lutetia!
She's done an excellent job of correlating images sizes and scales. Access her full post and the full-size image here. -- Daniel
7 comments | "How does Lutetia compare to the other asteroids and comets visited by spacecraft?"
29-09-2010 • 23:21:03
Anything about 21 Lutetia to come out of that?
Colour images, flyby movie, more images, density data, composition, magnetic fields data??
Anything????
Andrew Brown.
25-09-2010 • 13:28:11
Fantastic comparison there, shows just how much of a different league Lutetia is in.
Is there any idea of when news regarding the preliminary results of the Lutetia fly-by will be publicly announced? The media (BBC) at the time of the fly-by indicated they would be presented at the EPSC 2010 conference in Rome but that has finished now.
Thank you in advance.
19-07-2010 • 00:14:31
Just to tell Emily that I am using this excellent montage as my desktop.
Please ESA can you release some more soon of 21 Lutetia.
Andrew Brown.
17-07-2010 • 14:05:35
Hi
In the left side of asteroid's photos(http://webservices.esa.int/blog/gallery/5/3_final_sequence.jpg), They are white dots that are not like CCD noises, Are these dots background stars?
And what are black dots on asteroid's bright surface? (Noises?)
Thank you
19-07-2010 • 00:12:51
Hi Hamed P. Khorsandy
Yes you are correct. They are either hot pixels (btight ones) or bad pixels (black ones). Fortunately there are so few of them they are only apparent if you really look hard for them.
It is how the CCD works & are not permanent.
17-07-2010 • 14:01:45
Hi
In the left side of asteroid's photos(http://webservices.esa.int/blog/gallery/5/3_final_sequence.jpg)they are white dots that not like CCD noises, Are these dots background stars?
And what are black dots on asteroid's bright surface?(Noises?)
Thank you very much.
16-07-2010 • 16:50:47
Fantastic Emily, showe how large 21 Lutetia is, the first of the large asteroids seen up close. Aso shows 243 Ida & 253 Mathilde are not exactly tiddlers themselves, but 21 Lutetia is the first large one seen up close.
Andrew Brown.