Asteroid YU55 Caught on Tape

Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin
Published in
2 min readNov 9, 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6UgZ3C-zc0

Last night YU55, the asteroid with a Viking ship possibly hidden in its shadows, hurtled past Earth, and NASA caught a few frames of it. You can’t see too much, but if you zoom in, a few additional details are visible.

There appear to be several space crabs in at least one of the asteroid’s gullies.

The space crabs appear to be enjoying sparkling white wine.

And the sparkling white wine appears to have been topped with St. Germain — a wise addition.

Related: A Montage of Astronauts Falling on the Moon.

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Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin

Spiralbound editor. Formerly at The Hairpin. Also now making a newsletter: https://drawinglinks.substack.com