APOD: Approaching Asteroid Ceres (2015 Jan 20)

simone · Post by **simone** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 10:30 am

APOD Robot wrote: Approaching Asteroid Ceres

Explanation: It is the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt....

Do you know at what distance was the picture taken? Strangely they didn't state it in the caption as usual. Thanks

bystander · Post by **bystander** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 1:15 pm

simone wrote:
Do you know at what distance was the picture taken? Strangely they didn't state it in the caption as usual. Thanks

About 238,000 miles (383,000 kilometers) from Ceres (about the distance from Earth to the Moon).

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19168

DavidLeodis · Post by **DavidLeodis** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 7:46 pm

Donnageddon wrote:I have a hunch this is what you seek http://www.psi.edu/

Thanks Donnageddon for that help, which is appreciated.

quigley · Post by **quigley** » Fri Jan 23, 2015 6:54 pm

A silly question that I believe was answered by the distance question posted answer, but I was not sure what took these video frames? I now assume that it was the Dawn spacecraft.

bystander · Post by **bystander** » Fri Jan 23, 2015 9:45 pm

quigley wrote:A silly question that I believe was answered by the distance question posted answer, but I was not sure what took these video frames? I now assume that it was the Dawn spacecraft.

Yes, they were taken by Dawn's Framing Camera, basically its eyes, used for navigation.

Starship Asterisk*

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