<br><p><b>Uploader's notes</b>: The first frames of the animated gifs were cropped by the uploader and combined.
</p><p><b>Original caption released with top image:</b> Radar images of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/binary_asteroid" class="extiw" title="w:binary asteroid">binary asteroid</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_YE5" class="extiw" title="w:2017 YE5">2017 YE5</a> from NASA's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstone_Solar_System_Radar" class="extiw" title="w:Goldstone Solar System Radar">Goldstone Solar System Radar</a> (GSSR). The observations, conducted on June 23, 2018, show two lobes, but do not yet show two separate objects.
</p><p><b>Original caption released with bottom image:</b> Bi-static radar images of the binary asteroid 2017 YE5 from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory" class="extiw" title="w:Arecibo Observatory">Arecibo Observatory</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bank_Telescope" class="extiw" title="w:Green Bank Telescope">Green Bank Observatory</a> on June 25. The observations show that the asteroid consists of two separate objects in orbit around each other.
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<p>NASA / JPL-Caltech / GSSR (top)<br></p>
Arecibo / GBO / NSF / NASA / JPL-Caltech (bottom)
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