These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 3200 Phaethon were generated by astronomers at the National Science Foundation’s Arecibo Observatory on Dec. 17, 2017. Observations of Phaethon were conducted at Arecibo from Dec.15 through 19, 2017. The encounter is the closest the asteroid will come to Earth until 2093. (Arecibo Observatory/NASA/NSF)
Home These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 3200 Phaethon were generated by astronomers at the National Science Foundation’s Arecibo Observatory on Dec. 17, 2017. Observations of Phaethon were conducted at Arecibo from Dec.15 through 19, 2017. The encounter is the closest the asteroid will come to Earth until 2093. (Arecibo Observatory/NASA/NSF) These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 3200 Phaethon were generated by astronomers at the National Science Foundation's Arecibo Observatory on Dec. 17, 2017. Observations of Phaethon were conducted at Arecibo from Dec.15 through 19, 2017. The encounter is the closest the asteroid will come to Earth until 2093. (Arecibo Observatory/NASA/NSF)
These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 3200 Phaethon were generated by astronomers at the National Science Foundation’s Arecibo Observatory on Dec. 17, 2017. Observations of Phaethon were conducted at Arecibo from Dec.15 through 19, 2017. The encounter is the closest the asteroid will come to Earth until 2093. (Arecibo Observatory/NASA/NSF)
