An Asteroid with a Moon!
Posted in Astronomy at 20:11 on 29 January 2015
Apparently on Monday an asteroid passed very close to the Earth-Moon system, just over three times the Earth-Moon distance away. NASA’s Deep Space Network antenna array tracked it by radar.
There’s a video of this on the JPL site. The moon is clearly visible. Astounding stuff.
I found this via Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Tags: Astronomy, Astronomy Picture of the Day, Caltech, Deep Space Network, JPL, NASA
