PIA22559: Bi-static Radar Images of the Binary Asteroid 2017 YE5
Bi-static radar images of the binary asteroid 2017 YE5 from the Arecibo Observatory and the Green Bank Observatory on June 25. The observations show that the asteroid consists of two separate objects in orbit around each other.
 Target Name:  Asteroid
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Instrument:  Arecibo Observatory 
 Product Size:  500 x 250 pixels (w x h) 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA22559.tif (94.62 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA22559.jpg (36.85 kB)  

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Bi-static radar images of the binary asteroid 2017 YE5 from the Arecibo Observatory and the Green Bank Observatory on June 25. The observations show that the asteroid consists of two separate objects in orbit around each other.

More information about asteroids and near-Earth objects is available at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch.

Image Credit:
Arecibo/GBO/NSF/NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2018-07-12