Spacecraft to touch down Woomera Saturday

[Analog6]

A link to the story here (http://www.smh.com.au/world/science/space-invader-on-target-for-australia-after-4-billion-kilometre-trip-20100607-xqu7.html) - I couldn't see another thread about it but if there is fee free to combine this with it.

It refers to the Japanese mission launched in 2003 to obtain asteroid materail for analysis.

[MikeyB]

Existing thread is here:

Hayabusa spacecraft (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=62058)

Correct date/time is late Sunday evening.

[cookie8]

Interesting. Are we Sydneysiders suppose to see anything before the re-entry...I mean..a firewball???

[tonybarry]

According to the Hayabusa page mentioned above, No, it will re-enter over what looks like Geraldton, WA. We may get to see it if the trajectory is REALLY wrong ...

Regards,
Tony Barry

[MrB]

Ok, to flip Vincents question, will us Sandgropers likely see anything?

[daniela]

No fireball from Sidney. It won't be high enough. See path of the re-entering spacecraft at this link:
http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/j/topics/topics/2010/hayabusa_obs.shtml

[MikeyB]

Translated via Google Translate (Hayabusa optical telescope observations of the earth return before (http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.isas.j axa.jp%2Fj%2Ftopics%2Ftopics%2F2010 %2Fhayabusa_obs.shtml&sl=ja&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8)), the JAXA page gives the following person as a contact for observation details: yoshikawa.makoto@jaxa.jp

[tonybarry]

This page from JPL promises a live feed of the re-entry. Now that's smokin!

http://airborne.seti.org/hayabusa/

Regards,
Tony Barry

[Jaybee]

What Time is re-entry? Is is 11.20pm EST or CST?

[tonycynic]

Looks like 11.50pm for those of us in the east. Cloud is still patchy here tho.

[astroron]

Could not access that site:shrug:

[Tamtarn]

Just posted this link in the general chat forum

NASA video of re entry

Barb

http://parabolicarc.com/2010/06/13/video-hayabusa-spacecraft-reenters-atmosphere-australia/

[astroron]

Thankyou Barb:thanx: