Latest Images of Asteroid 2005 YU55 NASA, Live Web Cast of The Flyby, page 2
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reply posted on 8-11-2011 @ 05:26 PM by tooo many pills
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Right, I meant like an actual flyby, but I'm pretty sure the mini-shuttle can't go that far out of LEO. It would have been cool story though.


reply posted on 8-11-2011 @ 06:02 PM by Dalke07
www.ustream.tv...

He changing settings after this images and now is not so clear .. o0






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reply posted on 8-11-2011 @ 06:19 PM by kai22
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just been watching on the site you posted, and there's a bright white dot (which I assume is YU55) forming a triangle with 2 stars, but the bright dot keeps moving back and forth... surely an asteroid wouldn't do this? So what is it?

Any ideas?

Kyle


reply posted on 8-11-2011 @ 06:20 PM by Illustronic
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Amended reports that the speed past earth/moon was just under 30,000 mph, but I'm not sure what that speed is relative to, earth, or the sun. I am sure of one thing is that at perihelion it reaches it's fastest speed, just inside of the orbit of Venus, and aphelion just inside of Mars it's slowest speed. This is pretty constant and unfaltering orbital dynamics, it is after all orbiting the sun.

Only Space.com so far as I was able to find posted any speed at all. I'm sure with Horizons data a speed relative to the sun could be figured out, maybe asteroids travel slower than the planets??! Maybe speed figures are relative to earth?


reply posted on 8-11-2011 @ 06:22 PM by Dalke07
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Yes that bright white dot is YU55 ..

You have two link to watch ..

On first link asteroid looks like don't moving and stream upload is very bad, on other link you see how it move and leave tail like little comet ..

It's moving away from Earth you can see that clearly on second link where no pinning and moving slower ..
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reply posted on 8-11-2011 @ 06:23 PM by kai22
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I'm watching at the moment, it's just that it's movements seem very erratic.

But hey, I'm no expert

Kyle


reply posted on 8-11-2011 @ 07:45 PM by wavemaker
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What exactly are those rod-like things that show up on the screen? There are plenty of them.


reply posted on 8-11-2011 @ 08:18 PM by Dalke07
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What exactly are those rod-like things that show up on the screen? There are plenty of them.


xD

In first link or video that big and bright dot is asteroid, other are planets, stars, galaxy's etc ..

Telescope focusing asteroid and follow him all time, so other "objects" looks like they are moving ..

I think you easily find him on second ..
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reply posted on 9-11-2011 @ 11:24 PM by ngchunter
Originally posted by Dalke07

Here's a longer 4 hour timelapse of the asteroid from my broadcast last night. I just finished uploading it:
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reply posted on 9-11-2011 @ 11:47 PM by Dalke07
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Oh man you give my 12 min of pure beauty and magic, excellent work and know is very hard work to0

Thank yo00u very mach from all of us here ..



I go watch again ..

Maybe you know name of that brighter and bigger "star" at 00:24 ?

Thank you one more time ..

Peace ..
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reply posted on 10-11-2011 @ 12:05 AM by ngchunter
Originally posted by Dalke07
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Oh man you give my 12 min of pure beauty and magic, excellent work and know is very hard work to0

Thank yo00u very mach from all of us here ..



Peace ..

I go watch again ..

You know which is that bright and bigger "star" at 00:24 ?
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I'll run some astrometrics on it and see, I don't know off the top of my head. I'm running astrometrics anyway, so I'll just toss in an image from the video that contains that star.

*Got it, it's HR 7810.
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