Asteroids. Meteor Showers. Asteroids and Comets. List Of The Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) Comets. Fast-Rotating Asteroid Winks For Astronomer's Camera. Fast-Rotating Asteroid Winks For Astronomer's Camera Video imaging of newly discovered asteroid 2011 GP59 shows the object appearing to blink on and off about once every four minutes.
Amateur astronomers, including Nick James of Chelmsford, Essex, England, have captured video of the interesting object. James generated this video of GP59 on the night of Monday, April 11. The video, captured with an 11-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, is a compilation of 137 individual frames, each requiring 30 seconds of exposure. At the time, the asteroid was approximately 3,356,000 kilometers (2,081,000 mile) distant. Trojan Asteroids.