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Spinnor
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Why is the brightest part of the asteroid radar image below the upper edges?
From,
http://astronomynow.com/2015/08/03/peanut-shaped-near-earth-asteroid-1999jd6-imaged-by-radar/
Is it a software effect? I would naively think that the greatest radar intensity would be reflected from the parts of the asteroid nearly perpendicular to our view. A Google image search shows a similar trend.
https://www.google.com/search?safe=...13.0...0...1ac.1.64.img..0.18.879.Clm93sqRtmU
From,
http://astronomynow.com/2015/08/03/peanut-shaped-near-earth-asteroid-1999jd6-imaged-by-radar/
Is it a software effect? I would naively think that the greatest radar intensity would be reflected from the parts of the asteroid nearly perpendicular to our view. A Google image search shows a similar trend.
https://www.google.com/search?safe=...13.0...0...1ac.1.64.img..0.18.879.Clm93sqRtmU