Asteroid in town

NASA is keeping a close eye on the asteroid known as 2005 YUFF as it makes its closest approach to Earth tomorrow, November 9 at around 8am WA time.

At its closest point, the asteroid will be about 320,000kms from Earth.

Image: NASA.

Scientists will be studying the space rock with the help of NASA’s Deep Space Network in California and equipment from at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. They will bounce radio waves off the asteroid and back to Earth to collect radar images that will reveal surface features, shape, dimensions and other physical properties.

Asteroid 2005 YU55 is one of about 8,500 known near-Earth objects.

This information is courtesy of NASA.

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