‘Anybody want a peanut?’ Radar images of asteroid 2006 DP14
This image is one frame from a collage of radar images taken on Feb. 11, 2014, of near-Earth asteroid 2006 DP 14, which is about 1,300 feet (400 meters) long. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSSR On Feb. 10,...
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Radar video of 2014 HQ124 showing the peanut-shaped asteroid rotating on its axis with a period of about 20 hours. Every month a couple Earth-approaching asteroids fly close enough past Earth to make...
View ArticleWhat the? Rosetta’s comet is two comets in one!
Check this out! Rosetta’s comet is a contact binary, made of two separate comets that approached one another slowly enough sometime in the past to stick together as one. Click to enlarge. Credit: ESA...
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