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Asteroid Fly-By Caught On Tape

Posted by timothy on from the like-paris-hilton dept.

starexplorer writes "SPACE.com is reporting that the Asteroid Toutatis flew over the neighborhood early this morning. The Asteroid is 2.9 miles long and 1.5 miles wide and was caught on video (Animated GIF here) by a team of educators. NASA also has a video capture." (This is the same asteroid recently promised.)

3 of 25 comments (clear)

  1. Well That's One of Many by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Check the 'most complete map of the solar system' at http://szyzyg.arm.ac.uk/~spm/

  2. Video?? Liars! by escher · · Score: 3, Informative

    The nasa "video" is just a CG animation of the asteroid's rotation.

  3. Video Capture by finkployd · · Score: 2, Informative

    If by "video capture" you mean "CG artist's rendering of said asteroid", then this is correct.

    Finkployd