As a 2,000-foot-wide asteroid makes its closest pass to Earth in 900 years, NASA captured high-resolution images of the peanut-shaped rock.
The radar images of Asteroid 2014 JO25 were made early Tuesday using the antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, in California’s Mojave Desert, NASA said in releasing animation generated from the data.
The asteroid will fly past Earth on Wednesday at a distance of about 1.1 million miles, about 4.6 times the distance from Earth to the moon. It is the closest pass by the asteroid in 400 years, and it won’t come closer for at least 500 more years.
