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Asteroid 4179 Toutatis
Background information, images, and data on the asteroid whose September 29, 2004, approach to Earth "is the closest in this century of any known asteroid at least as large as Toutatis." Provides radar images and an animation of a model of the asteroid's rotation. Also includes a link to a list of other close approaches of objects to Earth. From the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology.
http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroids/4179_Toutatis/toutatis.html

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