A huge asteroid set to sail past Earth on Friday has its own moon, NASA scientists have just discovered.
Researchers obtained a series of radar images of the approaching asteroid 1998 QE2 [1] late Wednesday (May 29) using the Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif. Images captured over the course of two hours showed that the asteroid is actually a binary system.
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