Showing posts with label Asteroid 2005 YU55. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Asteroid 2005 YU55. Show all posts

Monday, November 7, 2011

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 8NOV2011 - NASA Captures New Photo of 2005 YU55



Radar image of Asteroid 2005 YU55 as it passes near Earth 7NOV2011
credit: NASA/JPL/CalTech


NASA CAPTURES NEW IMAGES OF LARGE ASTEROID PASSING EARTH
PASADENA -- NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif. has 
captured new radar images of Asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close to Earth. The asteroid safely will fly past our planet slightly closer than the moon's orbit on Nov. 8. The last

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 8NOV2011 - Close Encounter of the Rocky Kind (Asteroid 2005 YU55)

Close Encounter of the Rocky Kind (Asteroid 2005 YU55)

Close Encounter of the Rocky KindUniversity of Arizona, Tucson, AZ press release 7NOV2011  Discovered by a University of Arizona astronomer six years ago, a city-block-sized space rock will race past the Earth closer than the moon in what will be the closest encounter of an object of this size in more than 60 years.  When an asteroid the