NAIC/NRAO students observe football-shaped asteroid using the Arecibo Radiotelescope

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Ruth E. Torres Hernández e Yvonne Guadalupe Negrón
Participantes. De izquierda a derecha: Frank Ghigo; Alexander Pollak; Douglas Vakoch; Edgard Rivera-Valentin. Fila de abajo: Mehrnoosh Tahani; Hamideh Ebrahimi; Alyson Ford. Credit: K.O'Neil, NRAO/AUi/NSF

Students and researchers who participated in the NAIC/NRAO 8th Single-Dish Radio Astronomy School were able to obtain images from asteroid 2015 HM10. The asteroid was observed when it passed at about the same distance from Earth as the Moon (around 440,000 km or 270,000 miles),

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