Chimera is a NASA mission concept to orbit and explore 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 (SW1), an active, outbursting small icy body in the outer Solar System.

Dec 23, 2024 · The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that the centaur called 2060 Chiron is an oddball. The object, which is a minor body that orbits the sun in the expanse …

Mar 4, 2016 · CHIMERA uses detectors called electron multiplying charged-coupled devices (EMCCDs), making for an extremely high-sensitivity, low-noise camera system. One of the …

Feb 23, 2016 · CHIMERA was primarily developed to enable the characterization of the size distribution of sub-km Kuiper Belt Objects via stellar occultation, a science case that motivates …

Sep 30, 2019 · Stern, the principal investigator of NASA's New Horizons mission, leads Centaurus, one of the new Discovery candidates. The other Centaur concept, Chimera, is …

Recent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and a host of other instruments have provided a wealth of information about the extraordinary …

The Formation Of Our Solar System With CHIMERA. Professor Gregg Hallinan (Caltech) discusses the development of the Caltech High-Speed Multi-Color Camera (CHIMERA) which …

The idea behind CHIMERA is to build a magnetometer that can capture both low- and high-frequency magnetic fields. Currently, space craft have two magnetic field instruments on …

Jan 25, 2016 · The poet Homer describes the chimera as being a “monster of divine origin,” with a serpent’s tail, a she-goat’s body, and the head of a lion with fiery breath.

Jul 6, 2018 · High-speed optical photometry is characterizing man made satellites and space debris in Earth orbit. Commercially available Electron Multiplying CCD (EMCCD) imagers and …