Monthly Archives: January 2008

NASA Images of Earth Flyby Asteroid

NASA Scientists Get First Images of Earth Flyby Asteroid
Jan. 25, 2008 NEWS RELEASE from
Jet Propulsion Laboratory & California Institute of Technology

Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena , Calif. , have obtained the first images of asteroid 2007 TU24 using high-resolution radar data. The data indicate the asteroid is somewhat asymmetrical in shape, with a diameter roughly 250 meters (800 feet) in size.
Asteroid 2007 TU24 will pass within 1.4 lunar distances, or 538,000 kilometers (334,000 miles,) of Earth on Jan. 29 at 12:33 a.m. Pacific time (3:33 a.m. Eastern time.)
The asteroid will reach an approximate apparent magnitude 10.3 [...]

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Centaurus A Black Hole

Reuters video of new NASA images of a super-massive black hole in our nearest active galaxy, Centaurus A.
Read more about this cosmic collision between two galaxies at:
hubblesite.org/newscenter

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