Wednesday, November 9, 2011

That Asteroid


2005 YU 55.  Not much poetry in that name.  The image came from the Deep Space Network on 10 November; hands up all those who thought the were looking at a photo?
 (You can take your hands down now.)

Nope.  It's a radar image  Here's the link:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=1032