Fast-Rotating Asteroid Winks For Astronomer’s Camera

Posted by brandoniswrite on October 26, 2010

Video imaging of newly discovered asteroid 2011 GP59 shows the object appearing to blink on and off about once every four minutes. Amateur astronomers, including Nick James of Chelmsford, Essex, England, have captured video of the interesting object. James generated this video of GP59 on the night of Monday, April 11. The video, captured with [...]

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