Asteroid Radar Research


News:

(To view a news item in a full window, go to "The 373 Radar Detected Asteroids" in the right-hand column and then click on the name of the asteroid.)


Triple Near-Earth Asteroid 1994 CC

Radar Link Between Near-Earth Asteroid Composition and Roughness

2001 SN263: Discovery of the First
Triple Near-Earth Asteroid

Predicting the Earth Encounters of (99942) Apophis

Asteroid 54509 YORP (2000 PH5):
Spin rate increasing due to YORP effect

Binary Asteroid (66391) 1999 KW4:
Exotic physical properties and excited dynamics

Contact Binary Asteroid 2005 CR37

Asteroid 99942 Apophis (2004 MN4):
Radar refinement of orbit

Asteroid 6489 Golevka:
Radar detection of the Yarkovsky effect

Asteroid 4179 Toutatis: High-resolution radar model

Binary asteroids in the near-Earth object population

Asteroid (29075) 1950 DA: Radar pushes the limits of impact prediction

216 Kleopatra:

A giant, metallic, dogbone-shaped asteroid


53319 (1999 JM8):

Radar images capture big, slowly tumbling near-Earth asteroid


Asteroid 1998 KY26:

Radar and optical observations reveal a tiny, fast-spinning, water-rich oasis