'Peanut-Shaped' Space Rock Flies By Earth - Radar Observations Video

Friday, July 31, 2015 - 14:50 in Astronomy & Space

Asteroid 1999 JD6's nearest approach to Earth was ~4.5 millions miles away but it was close enough for radar images to be captured. The object is a "contact binary consisting of two lobes," according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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