This picture shows the AMOR-type asteroid 1998KU2. It consists of the assembly of 60 30-seconds CCD pictures taken between 21h08m UT and 21h42m UT of October 15th 1998. The asteroid was find to travel near the Pegasus-Aquarius border. The field of view of each side of the movie spans roughly 10.3 x 8.3 arcminutes.
North is up ,East is left.
The asteroid distance is 0.20 UA and it's brightness is roughly 15mag. It may not be reproduced in any form without written permission of the copyright owner. Permission is granted for non-commercial and educational purposes only. Any reference must indicate the source and include a link tag to this site.