Anonymous ID: cb5597 Dec. 21, 2018, 12:27 p.m. No.4413244   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3576

Holiday asteroid imaged with NASA radar

 

The December 2018 close approach by the large, near-Earth asteroid 2003 SD220 has provided astronomers an outstanding opportunity to obtain detailed radar images of the surface and shape of the object and to improve the understanding of its orbit.

 

The asteroid will fly safely past Earth on Saturday, Dec. 22, at a distance of about 1.8 million miles (2.9 million kilometers). This will be the asteroid's closest approach in more than 400 years and the closest until 2070, when the asteroid will safely approach Earth slightly closer.

 

https://phys.org/news/2018-12-holiday-asteroid-imaged-nasa-radar.html