Close Encounter

  • Released Tuesday, October 16, 2012
  • Updated Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 12:35PM
  • ID: 11103

The clearest views of 2005 YU55 (above) came from NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar facility in California.

The clearest views of 2005 YU55 (above) came from NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar facility in California.

Scientists believe thousands of asteroids exist in the solar system that will come within 5 million miles of Earth's orbit (shown in green above).

Scientists believe thousands of asteroids exist in the solar system that will come within 5 million miles of Earth's orbit (shown in green above).

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Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Swift footage and images courtesy of NASA/Swift/Stefan Immler and DSS
Goldstone radar images courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech
Near-Earth asteroid image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech



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