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Text with all links and the photos are available on the ESO Website at URL:
http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-re...hot-28-04.html
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For immediate release: 29 September 2004

ESO Press Photos 28a-e/04

ESO Views of Earth-Approaching Asteroid Toutatis

Radar observations during these passages have shown that
Toutatis has an elongated shape, measuring about 4.6 x 2.4 x
1.9 km. It tumbles slowly through space, with a rotation
period of 5.4 days.


Isn't that unusually slow?