Monday, January 30, 2012

Asteroid Eros at its closest since 1975 on January 31.


The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft captured this movie of Eros on December 3-4, 2000, while in orbit 125 miles (200 km) from the center of this asteroid. Image Credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory


Look for it in the area of Leo, Sextans and Hydra.