[brytlea]

Why didn’t they get a better picture? Didn’t they have a good Nikon like me?
I also read somewhere that next time it comes (2036?) it might hit us? I don’t like that, I plan to still be alive...

[SunkenCiv]

It's probably a radar image, and it could even be the same radar image (taken from Arecibo) that previously appeared in of those earlier topics linked above. :') @BL, there's probably stuff up already, let's see...

• asteroid.jpg?1305100057 [nice]
• asteroid-2005-YU55.jpg [okay]
• Asteroid-2005-YU55-jpg.jpg [round, so probably incomplete]
• Video of Asteroid 2005 YU55 -- - The Washington Post This video shows a composite of still images of Asteroid 2005 YU55 taken by a group from Wellesley College's astronomy department as it passed last night. (Nov. 9) (/Wellesley College's Whitin Observatory) [I found nothing on the Whitin website itself, maybe more later?]

There was also one image search hit that, in thumbnail, looked exactly like the asteroid Gaspra. And, it turned out to be Gaspra. And the caption said "2005 YU55". That's just good editing.