An asteroid the size of the Golden Gate Bridge (about 1.7 miles wide) is due to fly near the Earth tomorrow, that much scientists have known for a while. But what they did not know was that the asteroid, named 1998 QE2, would be bringing along a friend. New radar imagery of the asteroid's approach taken by NASA scientists using an antennae in Goldstone, California, has revealed that the asteroid contains a tiny moon of its own, approximately 2,000 feet wide. Check out the asteroid and its moon in a video released today by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory:
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/30/4380890/moon-discovered-around-asteroid-1998-qe2-near-earth
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