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Arecibo REU Student Publishes AO Radar Study on Large Potentially Hazardous Asteroid
Byfrancisco.torres15 March 2022 Planetary
| Planetary | Image credit: NASA |
Riley McGlasson, a 2018 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) summer student at the Arecibo Observatory, published a detailed study of the asteroid 1981 Midas in the Planetary Science Journal. The analysis combined radar data from the Arecibo Observatory and NASA’s Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex with optical data from telescopes across the world to provide a comprehensive mathematical description of the asteroid’s shape, its spin rate, its orientation in space, and the gravitational slopes across its surface. + Read More
