3-Mile-Long Asteroid Snapped By Online Telescope | Video

Monday, December 10, 2012 - 12:00 in Astronomy & Space

Gianluca Masi and F. Nocetini captured imagery of the irregularly-shaped space rock named 4179 Toutatis through the Virtual Telescope Project on December 8th, 2012. Its closest approach to Earth will be nearly 4.4 million miles away.

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