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Holiday Asteroid Imaged with NASA Radar

By Charles Blue | National Radio Astronomy Observatory, DC Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dwayne Brown / JoAnna Wendel | NASA, Ricardo Correa | Arecibo Observatory on Dec 21, 2018   Featured, Science/Education  

Holiday Asteroid Imaged with NASA Radar

The December 2018 close approach by the large, near-Earth asteroid 2003 SD220 has provided astronomers an outstanding opportunity to obtain detailed radar images of the surface and shape of the object and to improve the understanding of its orbit. The asteroid will fly safely past Earth on Saturday, Dec. 22, at a distance of about […]



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