Nine views of Asteroid PA8
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Nine new radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2007 PA8 were obtained between October 31 and November 13, 2012, with data collected by NASA's 230-foot-wide Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif.

These new radar images and measurements of 2007 PA8's distance and line-of-sight velocity further refined calculations of its orbit around the sun, enabling reliable computation of the asteroid's motion for the next 632 years.

February 12, 2013 1:56 PM PST

Photo by: NASA/JPL-Caltech

 

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