COmets METeors and Asteroids  

An international team of astronomers has uncovered striking new evidence that asteroid (44) Nysa, one of the brightest and largest asteroids in the main belt, possesses an extraordinary three-lobed structure and is accompanied by a small moon.

Discovered last year, this object from beyond our solar system continues to be studied by astronomers around the world, including researchers from the University of Liège.

An asteroid about the size of a very large house – 25 meters in diameter – passed within just 91,593 kilometers of Earth's surface on Monday, May 18, at around 11:30 p.m., roughly a quarter of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.