Tuesday 27 January 2015

Near Asteroid 2004 BL86 Has a Moon

Near Asteroid 2004 BL86 Has a Moon


The 325m-wide object, known as 2004 BL86, swept by our planet at the very safe distance of 1.2 million km on Monday, and gave researchers a good view of its shape using radar imaging. As well revealing information on the space rock's rotation rate and surface properties, the pictures also identified the 70m-diameter moon.

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