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PIA22969: Asteroid 2003 SD220
 Target Name:  Asteroid
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Instrument:  Arecibo Radar Data 
 Product Size:  600 x 270 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  NASA
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA22969.tif (140.3 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA22969.jpg (16.47 kB)

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These two radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2003 SD220 were obtained on Dec. 18 and 19 by coordinating observations with the Arecibo Observatory's 1,000-foot (305-meter) antenna in Puerto Rico and the National Science Foundation's (NSF) 330-foot (100-meter) Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. The radar images reveal the asteroid is at least one mile (1.6 kilometers) long.

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

Image Credit:
NASA/Arecibo/USRA/UCF/GBO/NSF

Image Addition Date:
2018-12-21