04/12/2020 - The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0

Near-Earth asteroid 2020 GF2 - 12 Apr. 2020

04/12/2020

Near-Earth asteroid 2020 GF2 very close encounter: an image – 12 Apr. 2020

A few hours ago, the near-Earth asteroid 2020 GF2 had a very close, but safe encounter with our planet, coming as close as about 900.000 km, 2.4 times the distance of our Moon. Our...

C/2019 Y4 Atlas and its fragments. 11 Apr. 2020

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04/12/2020

Comet C/2019 Y4 Atlas: multiple fragments recorded – 11 Apr. 2020

After our observations suggesting the presence of fragments in the inner coma of this comet, we imaged C/2014 Y4 Atlas every night. In particular, tonight we observed at least three fragments, telling the comet...