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Radar Images of
Asteroid 2014 JO25

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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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California Institute
of Technology

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This movie of asteroid 2014 JO25
was generated on April 18, 2017,

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using radar images obtained
by NASA's 230-foot-wide

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(70-meter) Deep Space
Network antenna

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at Goldstone, California.

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The asteroid has a contact
binary structure --

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two lobes connected by
a neck-like region.

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The largest of the
asteroid's two lobes is

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estimated to be 2,000 feet
(610 meters) across.

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The asteroid will approach to
within 1.1 million miles

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(1.8 million kilometers) of
Earth on April 19.

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The Goldstone observations were
conducted when the asteroid

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was 1.9 million miles (3 million
kilometers) from Earth.

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The resolution of the
radar images is about

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25 feet (7.5 meters) per pixel.

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There are no future flybys by
2014 JO25 as close as this one

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for more than 400 years.

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30 images were used
to create the movie

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shown at two different speeds.

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Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech