NASA captures Earth flyby of space peanut

There are 'peanut asteroids' flying around in space!

"Radar imaging has shown that about 15 per cent of near-Earth asteroids larger than 600 feet, including 1999 JD6, have this sort of lobed, peanut shape," said Lance Benner of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, in a statement.

NASA scientists have captured a peanut-shaped asteroid that approached close to Earth last weekend. The next time an asteroid will approach Earth this close will be in 2054.
On July 24, the asteroid made its closest approach to Earth at a distance of about 7.2 million kms, or about 19 times the distance from Earth to the moon.

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