... week, the asteroid 2005 YU55 passed by the Earth. Lots of observations were made, including using the Goldstone radio telescope in California. I wrote about how this works last week. NASA just released a new video showing an updated animation containing 28 frames, showing YU55 rotating as it swung past us: That's pretty nifty.
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... aimed at the asteroid 2005 YU55 a few days ago, when it passed the Earth at the relatively close distance of about 320,000 km. One of those eyes was actually in space as well: NASA's Swift satellite. This spacecraft was designed
Posted by Bad Astronomy
... Asteroid 2005 YU55 passed the Earth on the night of the 8/9th. Astronomer BJ Fulton used an LCOGT telescope in California to make an animation of the 400 metre diameter asteroid over the hours as it went by. The fly-by is compressed into less than 30 seconds for this animation. The asteroid has also been observed by ESA's Herschel Space Observatory even though it was moving pretty fast through the field of view. They haven't released the data yet but I'm sure they will in due course. - taken
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... Earth's surface. Asteroid 2005 YU55 was discovered by Robert McMillan during the Spacewatch survey on December 28, 2005. The 2011 approach is the closest that we know about in advance by an asteroid with an absolute magnitude this bright since 2010 XC15 (H = 21. 4) approached within 0. 5 lunar distances in 1976 (although astronomers did not
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Want to see 2005 YU55? There it is… it's dim, but it's visible – especially to the 25-inch telescope at the Clay Center Observatory in Massachusetts! The image above is from a live feed the observatory was airing on Ustream, taken as the asteroid came to its closest distance to Earth at 6:28 pm EST.
Posted by Lights in the Dark
... is snappily titled 2005 YU55. This kind of asteroid fly-by is rather rare. The last time that something this size passed
Posted by Dark Sky Diary
... (400 meter) asteroid 2005 YU55 was obtained on Nov. 7, 2011, at 11:45 a. m. PST (2:45 p. m. EST/1945 UTC), when the space rock was at 3. 6 lunar distances, which is about 860,000 miles, or 1. 38 million kilometers, from Earth. This asteroid will pass by Earth tomorrow at 6:28 pm EST,
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... hit the Moon. Although 2005 YU55 passes within the orbital distance of the Moon, it doesn't actually get between the Earth and
Posted by Astronomy Blog
... wasn't going to post anything else about asteroid YU55 until the images became available, but NASA just put up a video explaining a little bit about how they plan on getting observations of the sucker as it flies past us over the next couple of days: Just to clarify a bit: those radio telescopes
Posted by Bad Astronomy
... 400-meter-wide asteroid 2005 YU55 will glide past the Earth, missing us by a very comfortable margin of 320,000 kilometers (200,000 miles). This distance is three-quarters of the way to the Moon, and is in fact so far that you'll need a decent telescope to see it at all. However, I'm starting
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... Universe Today that 2005 YU55, a 400-meter-wide roughly spherical asteroid, will not pose any threat to Earth as it passes by on Tuesday, November 8… even though it will come within 80% of the distance to the Moon. Many experts have come forward to state this fact,
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... the much-discussed 2005 YU55, a 400-meter-wide asteroid that will pass by Earth next Tuesday at a distance closer than the Moon. The video features research scientist Lance Benner, an expert in radio imaging of near-Earth objects. While YU55 will come closer than any
Posted by Universe Today
... the rest of Asteroid 2005 YU55 Gets Closer to Earth; “No Chance of an Impact” (523 words) © Jason Major for Universe Today, 2011. | Permalink | 4 comments | Add to del. icio. us Post
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On Tuesday, November 8, at 6:28 p. m. EST, an asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier will soar past our planet at a distance closer than the Moon… and NASA scientists will be watching! (...)Read the rest of NASA Prepares for Asteroid's Close Pass (583 words) © Jason Major for Universe Today, 2011. | Permalink
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