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Sep 11 2007, 09:00 AM
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arXiv.org preprint: Characterization of the near-Earth Asteroid 2002NY40
Using the Maui Space Surveillance System a group of astronomers has managed to image the near-Earth asteroid 2002 NY40. The adaptive optics images are stunning and certainly the best visible light images of an NEA ever taken. -------------------- The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
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Sep 11 2007, 10:35 AM
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Figures are at the end of the preprint - see Figure 2, page 22.
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Jyril Characterization of the near-Earth Asteroid 2002NY40 Sep 11 2007, 09:00 AM
Toma B OK .... so where can I see those "best visibl... Sep 11 2007, 10:07 AM
Jyril Yes, sorry about that.
Fraser Cain of the Univers... Sep 11 2007, 11:04 PM
Jyril QUOTE (Jyril @ Sep 11 2007, 12:00 PM) ...... Sep 11 2007, 11:06 PM
Toma B Wow! really great images.
I wonder what HST i... Sep 12 2007, 06:49 AM
edstrick Uh.. did anybody notice that that article nowhere ... Sep 12 2007, 07:05 AM
jamescanvin There is a 1km scale bar on the images - longest d... Sep 12 2007, 08:09 AM
tedstryk During its close flyby, it was probably moving too... Sep 12 2007, 10:46 AM
Toma B QUOTE (tedstryk @ Sep 12 2007, 12:46 PM) ... Sep 12 2007, 11:18 AM
djellison Yes - 2002NY40 Sep 12 2007, 11:30 AM
ugordan Sooo.... it's a shape-shifter? One minute it... Sep 12 2007, 11:32 AM
tedstryk QUOTE (ugordan @ Sep 12 2007, 11:32 AM) S... Sep 12 2007, 02:30 PM
ugordan Didn't they in fact say they were lucky to cat... Sep 12 2007, 06:51 PM
tedstryk Those images were taken from Hawaii. There is a g... Sep 13 2007, 12:41 AM
Phil Stooke No, folks, radar works completely differently that... Sep 13 2007, 02:24 PM
tedstryk I had made the assumption that the smaller lobe wa... Sep 13 2007, 07:34 PM![]() ![]() |
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