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2007 TU24
tedstryk
post Jan 26 2008, 04:07 AM
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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-014

The first images are in - looks like another binary.


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post Jan 26 2008, 09:09 AM
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Here's a brief animation taken from the radar images of asteroid 2007 TU24.

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post Jan 30 2008, 09:45 AM
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Asteroid 2007 TU24 made its closest approach to Earth yesterday.

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/fea...d-20080129.html

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post Jan 30 2008, 08:40 PM
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I played too with the poor pixelized images:
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post Jan 30 2008, 10:03 PM
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It appears to have that Itokawa potato shape.


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