Asteroid 2010 ST3 (IMAGE)

Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

Asteroid 2010 ST3

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Two images of 2010 ST3 (circled in green) taken by PS1 about 15 minutes apart on the night of Sept. 16 show the asteroid moving against the background field of stars and galaxies. Each image is about 100 arc seconds across.

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