Viewing Asteroid YU55 as it approaches the Earth and Moon on November 8th, 2011. Updated version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1gC_Rids04
*** Courtesy of TBar1984 on Youtube
2005 YU55 Goldstone Radar Observations Planning:http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroids/2005YU55/2005YU55_planning.html
April 29, 2010 - Arecibo Radar Telescope reveals 2005 YU55 as a spherical object of about 400 meters:
http://www.pressoffice.cornell.edu/releases/release.cfm?pageid=46419
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch/newsfeatures.cfm?release=2010-144
Data page at MPC with list of Observations;
http://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=K05Y55U&comm...
Data page at JPL;
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2005%20YU55;orb=1;cov=1;log=0;cad=1#orb
NEO Earth Close Approaches;
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/
Recent article at NASA, "Asteroid 2005 YU55 to Approach Earth on November 8, 2011";
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news171.html
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