If this rock came close to Herman Cain, we would have thousands of pictures and some women saying it threatened them!
If Kim Kardashian sunbathed on this asteroid, we would have great pictures!
This could explain Perry’s poor performance during the debate last night, the added gravitational pull shifted Perry’s brain to one side of his skull squashing it a bit.
If Kris Humphries had this asteroid mounted on a ring for Kim Kardashian, we would have good pictures of it!
It was only about a quarter of an arcsecond wide at close approach. That’s incredibly tiny. Considering that, the radar pictures we have of it are actually quite good. In fact, at that size you’re doing really good if you can even just resolve it as more than a point-like light source (in other words, star-like). My telescope’s theoretical limit of resolution is only half an arcsecond, but I did get a nice timelapse of the asteroid moving against the stars during the close approach.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Id2KvFUqo
You probably won’t see a good image of it because most everything we have pointed into space for imaging, can’t focus at such a close distance.
This asteroid was discovered six years ago. Considering how close it gets to Earth I’m surprised NASA didn’t put a satellite together, launch it into orbit, land on the asteroid, and bring back a sample as well as high resolution photos.
If it came “within smashing distance”, how come it didn’t smash?
It obviously did NOT come within smashing distance.