14 Apr 2011 - Fast-Rotating Asteroid Winks For Astronomer's Camera

[NASA]

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/asteroid20110414-160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=37064)14 Apr 2011 - Fast-Rotating Asteroid Winks For Astronomer's Camera
Video imaging of newly discovered asteroid 2011 GP59 shows the object appearing to blink on and off about once every four minutes.


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[cheez_2806]

hey! that was in the in the news today aswell:

Close, but no cigar

An asteroid as powerful as 15 atomic bombs whizzed past Earth at just 10 times the distance of the moon at the weekend.
The 50m cigar shaped rock known as GP59 could have destroyed a small country, but was barely noticed as it passed within 3.2million km of Earth.
It was picked up by Spanish astronomers last week who determined it was heading towards us.
It is five times bigger that one that exploded over Indonesia with the power of three atomic bombs in 2009, New Scientist said.