Hi, We're going to be releasing a photo of Asteroid Annefrank today. The asteroid was a bit dimmer than expected. It did not show up in any of the opnav images on approach (up to 12 hours away), so we proceeded with the flyby with no course correction. On the positive side, because it was dimmer, the asteroid was about twice as big as expected. Upon close approach, the autonav software on Stardust worked perfectly, and picked out the asteroid and centered the camera on the asteroid during the encounter. Not surprisingly, Asteroid Annefrank is an irregularly-shaped object, and craters are visible in the closer images. There is an indication Annefrank may be a contact binary. I'll let you know when the image is available.
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