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Huge Earth-Passing Asteroid 'Entirely New Beast'

Sunday, June 16, 2013 12:39

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Question: why they said NOTHING about this so called BEAST? I think that they had to inform us before.

A big asteroid that flew past Earth last month belongs to a new category of space rock, scientists say.

Asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon sailed within 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers) of Earth on May 31, making their closest approach to our planet for at least the next two centuries.

New radar images captured by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico are revealing just how unique this binary asteroid is, researchers say.

watch NASA’s video of the asteroid 1998 QE2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIncsb14Nso

This is an artist’s drawing of asteroid 1998 QE2 as it approaches Earth. ESA

“Asteroid QE2 is dark, red, and primitive — that is, it hasn’t been heated or melted as much as other asteroids,” Arecibo’s Ellen Howell said in a statement.

“QE2 is nothing like any asteroid we’ve visited with a spacecraft, or plan to, or that we have meteorites from. It’s an entirely new beast in the menagerie of asteroids near Earth.” (Potentially Dangerous Asteroids (Images ) http://www.space.com/20151-potentially-dangerous-asteroids-images.html

The 1,000-foot-wide (305 meters) Arecibo dish and NASA’s 230-foot (70 m) Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif., tracked 1998 QE2 as it approached Earth last month, then kept following the near-Earth asteroid as it receded into the depths of space.

The resulting radar images have helped researchers take 1998 QE2′s measure. The dark, cratered main asteroid is 1.9 miles (3 km) wide, and it has a 2,500-foot (750 m) moon that orbits it once every 32 hours.

“QE2′s moon is roughly one-quarter the size of the main asteroid,” Patrick Taylor, also of Arecibo, said in a statement. “Similarly, our moon is also approximately one-fourth the size of our planet.”

As you see we learn those important news almost a month later!!. The next time that a such asteroid it’s going to pass close to Earth you’ll wonder what is really the truth.

I am afraid to think what they will tell us about the comet ISON. IF WE HAVE THE CHANCE AFTER ITS PASSING.

Image: artist’s impression

Studying the moon and its orbit should help scientists determine the mass of the main asteroid, which in turn will shed light on the object’s composition, researchers said.

Asteroid 1998 QE2 was discovered in August 1998 by astronomers working with MIT’s Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research program in New Mexico. The space rock completes one lap around the sun every 3.8 years.

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http://news.discovery.com/space/asteroids-meteors-meteorites/earth-passing-asteroid-130615.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

Thank you so much.

Elias Fragakis

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