New Record! Telescope Finds 19 Asteroids in One Night
Friday, February 25, 2011 - 18:00
in Astronomy & Space
The Pan-STARRS PS1 telescope, high atop a Hawaiian peak, set an all-time record last month, spotting 19 new asteroids in a single night. Two of the space rocks will come close to Earth in the next 100 years or so.