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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.)

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  1. Re:Well That's One of Many by szyzyg · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ahhh yes.... from the days before I was snatched away by the promise of internet companies. It's been over 5 years since I created that page and it keeps getting rediscovered. I need to update some of my astroid animations how that I can do video editing with something more powerful than shell scripts ;-)

    People should also check out the local map for today, showing Toutatis right next to the planet.