21 Lutetia is an asteroid that’s around 100km wide, and spends most of its time kickin’ around the Asteroid Belt. On July 10, the ESA probe Rosetta performed a flyby, making it the largest asteroid we’ve done so with. The probe passed it at a distance of 3160 km, traveling 15km/s. These amazing photos (and the rendered video above) are what it gathered.
Image credits: ESA 2010 MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
Video simulation credits: ESA/AOES Medialab
[Via BoingBoing]