Eiffel Tower-sized asteroid 2024 JV33 resembles a 'peanut', rotates once every 7 hours; NASA shares video

On the National Peanut Day, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released pictures and video of Asteroid 2024 JV33.

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15 Sep 2024, 08:55 AM IST



Asteroid 2024 JV33 had safely passed Earth at a distance of 2.8M miles (4.6M km) in August.

Asteroid 2024 JV33 looked like a "peanut" – "with two rounded lobes, one lobe larger than the other", showed a series of images caputured by the Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, on August 18, 2024.

Asteroid 2024 JV33 had safely passed Earth at a distance of 2.8M miles (4.6M km) in August. The near-Earth asteroid made its closest approach towards the Earth on August 19.

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On the National Peanut Day, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released pictures and video of Asteroid 2024 JV33. These images were captured when the asteroid was at a distance of about 12 times the distance between the Moon and Earth.

The asteroid was discovered by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Tucson, Arizona, on May 4. According to NASA, “...the near-Earth asteroid's shape resembles that of a peanut – with two rounded lobes, one lobe larger than the other.”

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