For info / possible action. Richard Miles ----- Original Message ----- From: "jon_giorgini" <Jon.Giorgini@jpl.nasa.gov> To: <mpml@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 8:05 PM Subject: {MPML} Phobos-Soil Spacecraft Observations > Scheduled for launch Nov 8, the Space Research Institute > (IKI, Russia) is very interested in any "near real-time" > observations and astrometry of the Mars-bound Phobos-Soil. > > Of particular interest are observations of two engine > burns to occur mostly over South America late Nov 8/early > Nov 9 UTC. > > They have set up a website with ground-track plots. > The site also lets people directly input astrometry > (MPC 80-column format): > > http://phobos.cosmos.ru/index.php?id=1686&L=2 > > If you are thinking about reporting observations, sign up > in advance to get a password that gives access to the data > input section of the site. > > Topocentric tracking predicts are computable from Horizons: > > Web: > http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi?find_body=1&body_group=mb&sstr=-555 > > URL interactive window (type "soil" at prompt) > telnet://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov:6775 > > UNIX/Linux interactive command-line (type "soil" at prompt): > telnet ssd.jpl.nasa.gov 6775 > > During the engine firing, the spacecraft will be only 100's > of km overhead, moving at many 100s of arcsec/second and more. > So conventional astrometry will be "a challenge" until relative > motion slows, even though eyes-on/camera-on/clock-on could be > invaluable. _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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