Asteroid with Tiny Moon . . . and more of Space too . . .

Asteroid 2004 BL86 came within  745,000 miles of the Earth on Tuesday, January 26. That is actually pretty close! Our moon is 238,900 miles from the Earth.

The images, captured by NASA, show a small moon, approximately 230 feet (70 meters) across. The asteroid is approximately 1,100 feet (325 meters) across.




There are 20 images in this .gif movie.


* http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4459

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In other news about Space .  .  . They finally found the Beagle II which was lost in space. They found it hiding on Mars. Read the article here:

http://magazines.scholastic.com/news/2015/01/Found-A-Missing-Spacecraft  

Here is NASA's Mars page: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/images/#.VMfD5MbG0dK

Here is NASA's webpage. There are links for kids and tons of pictures:
http://www.nasa.gov/

Beagle 2 is the largest white spot and its parachute is the smallest.

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Even further out into Space .  .  . our beautiful Hubble Telescope gives us pictures:

http://hubblesite.org/

Almost all the pictures are breathtaking . . .  go, take a tour of space, through the eyes of the telescope.

 

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