Posted on 01/31/2015 10:57:15 AM PST by BenLurkin
The images were made by bouncing radio waves off the surface of the bodies using NASA’s 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif. Radar “pinging” reveals information about the shape, velocity, rotation rate and surface features of close-approaching asteroids. But the resulting images can be confusing to interpret because they’re not photos in the normal sense.
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pics and video at link
We should be so lucky.
I hate it when that happens!
Orbiting moon? I doubt it.
Okay, I’ll bite. What do you think we’re looking at in these images?
The gravity exerted by an asteroid is minuscule. If, and that is a HUGE if, something was indeed “orbiting” an asteroid it would have to traveling at a speed near zero. The object in the video is moving too fast.
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