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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Cometary and Asteroid Missions _ 2007 TU24

Posted by: tedstryk Jan 26 2008, 04:07 AM

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-014

The first images are in - looks like another binary.

Posted by: n1ckdrake Jan 26 2008, 09:09 AM

Here's a brief animation taken from the radar images of asteroid 2007 TU24.

Posted by: n1ckdrake Jan 30 2008, 09:45 AM

Asteroid 2007 TU24 made its closest approach to Earth yesterday.

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/asteroid-20080129.html

Latest radar image

Enhanced with Photoshop

Posted by: dilo Jan 30 2008, 08:40 PM

I played too with the poor pixelized images:

Posted by: ElkGroveDan Jan 30 2008, 10:03 PM

It appears to have that Itokawa potato shape.