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Asteroid 2005 YU55 radar image from Nov. 6, 2011

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Asteroid 2005 YU55 Nov. 6, 2011 Radar Image

This radar image of asteroid 2005 YU55 was obtained on Nov. 6, 2011, at 1:45 p.m. PST (4:45 p.m. EST/2145 UTC), when the space rock was at 6.4 lunar distances, which is about 1.5 million miles, or 2.46 million kilometers, from Earth.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech