Latest Images of Asteroid 2005 YU55 NASA, Live Web Cast of The Flyby

This site is not working right says we have 3 hours to go: events.slooh.com...

But this is a cool site that tracks it: Eyes on the Solar System

reply to post by Illustronic


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.

You can watch live tracking of 2005 YU55 here ..

Thanks to "blackmetalmist" for link .. xD

www.ustream.tv...








This is better, I make some images ..

www.ustream.tv...

www.ustream.tv...

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

reply to post by Dalke07


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

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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 to post by kai22


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 ..

reply to post by Dalke07


I'm watching at the moment, it's just that it's movements seem very erratic.

But hey, I'm no expert

Kyle

Some recorded videos ..

reply to post by Dalke07


What exactly are those rod-like things that show up on the screen? There are plenty of them.

Originally posted by wavemaker
reply to post by Dalke07

 

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 ..

After the stars shifted i lost the asteroid..where did it go...

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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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 ..

Originally posted by Dalke07
reply to post by ngchunter

 

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 ?

edit on 9-11-2011 by Dalke07 because: (no reason given)

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.