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Holiday Asteroid Imaged with NASA Radar

Posted on 2018-12-31 at 9:41 am.

Written by Green Bank Observatory


Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSSR/NSF/GBO
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Tags: asteroid, close approach, press release, science news

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