Science and Exploration

Video: Near Miss Asteroid 2004 BL86 Has a Moon

By Marc Boucher
January 27, 2015
Filed under , ,
Video: Near Miss Asteroid 2004 BL86 Has a Moon
Asteroid 2004 BL86 Has a Moon
NASA

Asteroid 2004 BL86 passed by Earth yesterday, January 26, 2015 at 16:19 UTC (11:19 a.m. EST). NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) created this “movie” of the asteroid from data generated by radar collected by NASA’s Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California. Twenty individual images were used.

SpaceRef co-founder, entrepreneur, writer, podcaster, nature lover and deep thinker.