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n2doc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 08:58 PM
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Radar Imaging of Near-Earth Asteroid
by J. Major


Radar image sequence of 1.1-mile-wide asteroid 2010 JL33

NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar, located in California’s Mojave Desert, recently made some detailed observations of asteroid 2010 JL33 on December 11 and 12, 2010 as it tumbled through space at a distance of 5.3 million miles – 22 times further away than the Moon! The radar images have also been assembled into a video, which represents nearly one complete rotation of the mile-wide asteroid. Its oval shape and large impact crater are evident in the images

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http://lightsinthedark.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/radar-love/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8INZkAiSoGs&feature=player_embedded
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phasma ex machina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 09:17 PM
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1. Interesting. Thanks for sharing. nt
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 09:59 PM
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2. It looks like a Corn Nut.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 12:37 AM
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3. They did that with RADAR at a distance of over 5 million miles?
Holy shit. :wow:
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Nihil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-11 06:33 AM
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4. Yeah, that got me too!
:wow: indeed!
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