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Dawn artist's concept orbiting asteroid Vesta

Dawn's cryptic image release titles

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/09/14 04:44 CDT

Dawn's cryptic image release titles

Vesta's wacky craters

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/08/16 09:26 CDT

Vesta's wacky craters

Near Earth Objects and Planetary Defense

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/11/26 08:52 CST

Triple asteroid 1994 CC rotation animation

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/08/06 10:39 CDT

From the "just plain cool" department. I love animations of planetary images and I love radar images of asteroids -- so this animation is doubly cool.

Asteroid 4179 Toutatis as seen simultaneously from Paranal and La Silla

Close Your Left Eye, Then Your Right: Simultaneous Observations of Asteroid 4179 Toutatis from Two Chilean Telescopes Demonstrate Parallax

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2004/09/29 12:00 CDT

This morning, asteroid 4179 Toutatis was so close to Earth that simultaneous observations from two telescopes in the same country could show parallax that is obvious even to the least experienced observer. The two telescopes belong to The European Southern Observatory and are located at La Silla and Paranal in Chile