Sunday, 8 January 2017

Arecibo Radar: Movie of potentially hazardous 250m asteroid (226514) 2003 UX34, with a tiny newly discovered moon...


Arecibo Radar: Movie of potentially hazardous 250m asteroid (226514) 2003 UX34, with a tiny newly discovered moon orbiting it.

Source:
http://www.naic.edu/~pradar/

More info on 2003 UX34:
http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroids/2003UX34/2003UX34_planning.2017.html

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5 comments:

  1. Boris Borcic8 January 2017 at 06:29

    If 250m is the diameter of the circle implied by the visible arc, that moonlet is really tiny -- but at these scales there's no reason to assume sphericity, so the chord of the arc looks like a better bet for the scale bar.

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  2. Bob Calder8 January 2017 at 06:47

    Paul Carr topic for podcast?

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  3. Fravahar Homayoun Ir8 January 2017 at 08:21

    Bravo!

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  4. Paul Carr8 January 2017 at 11:29

    Bob Calder possibly - what is are the discussion points? We're not an astronomy education show - others are already doing that, and better than we can hope to.

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  5. Ravi K.C13 January 2017 at 09:49

    Thanks for sharing Miss Corina....:-)....

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