See ‘Puzzling’ Asteroid 2005 YU55 Tumble The 70-meter Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, California, the team of astronomers decided to animate an entire sequence of their high-resolution radar images of YU55 to make a short movie clip. (Suggested title: “The Asteroid’s Progress.”) It was painstaking work: each of the six frames required a full 20 minutes of data collection by the radar equipment at Goldstone. But the work paid off, according to JPL radar astronomer Lance Brenner, who led the YU55 observation effort, since they were able to see much more surface detail than would have been visible otherwise. Specifically, “The animation reveals a number of puzzling structures on the surface that we don’t yet understand,” he said in the official press release. “To date, we’ve seen less than one half of the surface, so we expect more surprises.” Jennifer Ouellette on Asteroid 2005 YU55

See ‘Puzzling’ Asteroid 2005 YU55 Tumble

The 70-meter Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, California, the team of astronomers decided to animate an entire sequence of their high-resolution radar images of YU55 to make a short movie clip. (Suggested title: “The Asteroid’s Progress.”) It was painstaking work: each of the six frames required a full 20 minutes of data collection by the radar equipment at Goldstone.

But the work paid off, according to JPL radar astronomer Lance Brenner, who led the YU55 observation effort, since they were able to see much more surface detail than would have been visible otherwise.

Specifically, “The animation reveals a number of puzzling structures on the surface that we don’t yet understand,” he said in the official press release. “To date, we’ve seen less than one half of the surface, so we expect more surprises.”

Jennifer Ouellette on Asteroid 2005 YU55

Source: news.discovery.com

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