Asteroid, Comets and Meteors

Gallery of Asteroids, Comets and Meteors.

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These three radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2003 SD220 were obtained on Dec. 15-17, by coordinating observations with NASA's 230-foot...
This frame from a movie of asteroid 2014 JO25 was generated using radar data collected by NASA 230-foot-wide 70-meter Deep...
This radar image of asteroid 2005 YU55 was obtained NASA Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif. on Nov. 7,...
This image of asteroid 2011 MD was taken by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope in Feb. 2014, over a period of...
Though fragile comet nuclei have been seen falling apart as they near the Sun, nothing like the slow breakup of...
Two Very Different Asteroids
Radar Model of Asteroid 216 Kleopatra
No one knows where it came from. No one knows how long it has been drifting through the empty, cold...
This collage of radar images of near-Earth asteroid 1999 JD6 was collected by NASA scientists on July 25, 2015. The...
This illustration, created in March 2021, depicts asteroid Psyche, which lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
The streak circled in the center of this image is asteroid 2020 QG, which came closer to Earth than any...
The asteroid Euphrosyne glides across a field of background stars in this time-lapse view from NASA's WISE spacecraft. WISE obtained...
Though fragile comet nuclei have been seen falling apart as they near the Sun, nothing like the slow breakup of...
Small, cropped photo of a meteor