Just north of the Arctic Circle on Greenland's west coast the dancing «northern lights» offer the perfect backdrop to the antenna of the Sondrestrom Upper Atmospheric Research Facility's centerpiece instrument — the ionospheric radar system.
Ellen Howell (National Astronomy and Ionospheric Centre, NAIC, Arecibo Observatory) and Mikko Kaasalainen (Helsinki University) were provided with photometric data to support radar observations and asteroid shape modeling respectively.