New Image of Asteroid 2010 Al30

This is a great image caught by amature astronomers that I found on UniverseToday.com. It is still undetermined what the orbit and exact nature of the object is. It's possible that it is a man-made object, perhaps a spent rocket booster from the ESA's Venus Express. Check out UniverseToday.com for more images and more information. It's a great site!

UPDATE:

This was supposed to be an animated .GIF, but I haven't figured out how to get Blogger to display them properly. The asteroid is the small white dot at the center of the image. Hopefully I'll get the image fixed soon.

New Asteroid Discovered

I just read about on Wired.com. The object, now called 2010 AL30, is purported to be 30 to 50 feet across and is to come within one third of the moon’s distance from Earth. Check the links below, provided by Wired.com, for more information.

http://remanzacco.blogspot.com/2010/01/neo-2010-al30-close-approach.html

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/new-asteroid/