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Radar Images of Binary Asteroid 2017 YE5

Jul 12, 2018
Radar images of the binary asteroid 2017 YE5 from NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar (GSSR). The observations, conducted on June 23, 2018, show two lobes, but do not yet show two separate objects.

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Radar images of the binary asteroid 2017 YE5 from NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar (GSSR). The observations, conducted on June 23, 2018, show two lobes, but do not yet show two separate objects.

More information about asteroids and near-Earth objects is available at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch.

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