Sunday, September 20, 2009

Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand | The Juno asteroid is at opposition on September 22 when it will be at its brightest, magnitude 7.6

Illustration based on photos made in 1996.
Graphic: David A. Aguilar, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Juno is a very big asteroid made of stone in a very excentric orbit. It was the third minor planet to be discovered, after Ceres and Pallas.
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