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2005 YU55 Will pass between the Moon and the Earth about this time next year.
On the Plus side of things, obamatard finally grew a few brain-cells and is upping NASA's budget from $3.7mil to $20.3mil in 2011. I just want to know where he's getting all this money to create programs AND up existing program's budgets... Either way, it's about time NASA gets a boost.
Potentially Dangerous Asteroid Spotted Passing Earth - Yahoo! News
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On the Plus side of things, obamatard finally grew a few brain-cells and is upping NASA's budget from $3.7mil to $20.3mil in 2011. I just want to know where he's getting all this money to create programs AND up existing program's budgets... Either way, it's about time NASA gets a boost.
Potentially Dangerous Asteroid Spotted Passing Earth - Yahoo! News
Read the rest at the source.
SPACE.com Staff
SPACE.com Space.com Staff
Learn More at Space.com. From Satellites to Stars, NASA information, Astronomy, the Sun and the Planets, we have your information here. – Thu Apr 29, 12:01 pm ET
An asteroid on the list of potentially dangerous space rocks that could endanger the Earth was caught on camera as it zoomed past our planet this month, and found to be larger than astronomers originally thought.
The asteroid buzzed the Earth on April 19 and came within 1.5 million miles (2.4 million km) of the planet. That's about six times the distance between Earth and the moon.
Astronomers used the planetary radar system on the famed Arecibo radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico to spot the asteroid, called 2005 YU55, over four days starting on April 19. The photo revealed the asteroid as a half-lit space rock flying through the solar system.
"This object is on the list of 'potentially hazardous asteroids' maintained by the Minor Planet Center, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.," Arecibo astronomers said in a statement. [More asteroid photos.]
The astronomers found that the asteroid is about 1,300 feet (400 meters) in size – about a quarter-mile (400 meters) long and twice as big as originally thought. The Arecibo telescope's planetary radar system resolved features on the asteroid down to about 25 feet (7.5 meters).
Asteroid 2005 YU55 was first discovered by astronomer Robert McMillan, of the Spacewatch detection team, on Dec. 28, 2005. And this isn't the only chance astronomers will have to study 2005 YU55.
The space rock will be back.