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Image: Gianluca Masi (Virtual Telescope Project, Italy) and Berto Monard (Klein Karoo Observatory, South Africa)
Image: Gianluca Masi (Virtual Telescope Project, Italy) and Berto Monard (Klein Karoo Observatory, South Africa)

This series of images shows the progression of the impact plume in the 20 minutes following the impact. It was taken from the Klein Karoo Observatory in South Africa, in collaboration with Italy’s Virtual Telescope Project. From this distance, the binary asteroid system appears as a single dot in telescopic images.

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