The nearly 200 foot (60-meter) asteroid looks more like a flat disk — or not-quite-round hockey puck — than a potato. It also has a rapid rotation rate of about once every 20 minutes.

The Southwest Research Institute-led Lucy mission is preparing to survey the next target in its epic 4-billion-mile, 12-year, 11-asteroid tour. On April 20, 2025, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will fly past ...

However, recent observations made by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope found that the asteroid could still smash into the Moon. It now has a 3.8 per cent chance of a lunar strike, up from a 1.8 per ...

The 60-meter-wide asteroid, shaped like a flat disc, rotates every 20 minutes and likely originated from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It comes close to Earth every four years.

The new observations also revealed that the asteroid has a remarkably rapid rotation period of just 20 minutes. This, coupled with a detailed analysis of the asteroid's light curve — the subtle ...

The team also determined that the asteroid is rotating very fast, about once every 20 minutes, and estimated its size to be 98 to 213 feet (30 to 65 meters) wide, according to the study.

The object is rotating rapidly, performing a rotation every 20 minutes, and it also has an unusual shape: like a hockey puck. All of this information suggests that the asteroid came from the main ...

The asteroid is made up of carbons—the molecules that form the basis of all life. Researchers found that the samples include 14 of the 20 amino acids that life on Earth uses to make proteins.

And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans ... rock was hockey puck-shaped and rapidly rotated every 20 minutes. “YR4 spins once every 20 minutes, rotates ...

The nearly 200 foot (60-meter) asteroid looks more like a flat disk — or not-quite-round hockey puck — than a potato. It also has a rapid rotation rate of about once every 20 minutes.