Asteroid Toutatis slowly tumbles by Earth
Sunday, December 16, 2012 - 13:30
in Astronomy & Space
Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a series of radar data images of a three-mile-long (4.8-kilometer) asteroid that made its closest approach to Earth on Dec. 12, 2012.