Friday, January 25, 2008

2007 TU24 already resolved by radar: it's double

Since two days ago the Goldstone radar is seeing the NEO, helping to refine its orbit (no Earth impact possible for hundreds of years) and vaguely resolving it into two objects.

3 comments:

Daniel Fischer said...

There is also a JPL Release on the radar observations.

Daniel Fischer said...

Details for observers can be found in a Sky & Telescope article.

Daniel Fischer said...

Arecibo is also preparing radar observations.