308635 2005 YU55 links
- "2005 YU55 Observing Campaign," Minor Planet Bulletin - 18 Nov. 2011
Note: See page bottom for photometric campaign "(Almost) Final Results."
- "2005 YU55 Planning," JPL radar page - 15 Nov. 2011 - Note: Radar images posted from 6 and 7 Nov.
- "How Students Helped World See Giant Space Rock 2005 YU55," Space.com - 9 Nov. 2011
- "Goldstone: Desert outpost performs radio imaging of ... 2005 YU55," Planetary Soc. Blog - 9 Nov. 2011
- "Parting shots from the asteroid," MSNBC Cosmic Log - 9 Nov. 2011
- "Keck Telescope Snaps Images of Asteroid's Exit," W.M. Keck Obs. - 9 Nov. 2011
- "NASA Releases Radar Movie of Asteroid 2005 YU55," NASA - 8 Nov. 2011
- "NASA Captures New Images of Large Asteroid Passing Earth," NASA/JPL - 7 Nov. 2011 - Note: Same-day image.
- "Could Asteroid 2005 YU55 Destroy the Moon?" MSNBC - 4 Nov. 2011
- "Asteroid flyby a missed lander opportunity?" USA Today - 2 Nov. 2011
- "Mini-Asteroid Makes a House Call," Sky & Telescope - 1 Nov. 2011
- "Huge Asteroid to Creep Near Earth on Nov. 8," Space.com - 27 Oct. 2011
- "NASA in Final Preparations for Nov. 8 Asteroid Flyby," NASA/JPL - 26 Oct. 2011
- "Close, but no Cigar: The Flyby of Asteroid 2005 YU55," MPC Daily Minor Planet - 5 Oct. 2011
- "Spacecraft Earth to Perform Asteroid 'Flyby' This Fall," NASA/JPL - 2 May 2011
- "Huge Asteroid to Pass Near Earth in November," Space.com - 7 April 2011
- "Asteroid 2005 YU55 to Approach Earth on November 8, 2011," NASA/JPL NEO Program Office - 10 March 2011
- "New And Old Observations Bolster Asteroid Worries," Discovery News - 1 May 2010
Quote: "[A survey of pre-1878 astronomical reports found] four instances where Jupiter might have been whacked."
- "Arecibo telescope tracks 'potentially dangerous' asteroid," Cornell Chronicle - 30 April 2010
Quote: "Arecibo radar imaging [showed that 2005 YU55 is] twice as large as previously estimated."
- "Arecibo saves us from another potentially hazardous asteroid," Planetary Soc. Blog - 29 April 2010
- "Radar Clicks Asteroid's Pic," NASA/JPL - 29 April 2010
- "2005 YU55" - JPL Small-Body Database
- "2005YU55 Close Approaches" - NEODyS
Note: 2005 YU55 was numbered 308635 in the IAU MPC 9 Dec. 2011 new numberings.
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