Is near-earth (perihelion 1.01AU) asteroid 2011 UW158 the same asteroid that was painted back in the 15th century painting entitled "The Madonna with Saint Giovannino"?
As crazy as that question may sound, the resemblance between an Arecibo Radar Observatory image of asteroid 2011UW158 and the image that appears on the painting seem well beyond uncanny. There also appears to be an electrical discharge of sorts coming off the asteroid... to the ionosphere perhaps?
I already know that this has to be completely impossible on many counts... after all... the 300m asteroid would have to be floating by very slowly for an artist to be able to get any detail into his painting plus he would probably have to recall what he saw from memory. If anyone could do it however, it would be one of Europe's finest artists from the same school that taught Michelangelo. Anyway... I have a feeling that if there is any place on the internet that can figure this head-scratcher out it's going to be here!
Thanks in advance for any feedback for or against this idea that you may have.
Pay special attention to the upper right side of the asteroid. Do you see a black circle with a black dot next to a white circle with a gray dot?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... _UW158.png
Pay special attention to the upper right side of the asteroid again. Do you see a dark dot next to a yellow circle with a dot in the approximately the same location in the radar image? ?

http://www.newsgarden.org/columns/image ... ingufo.jpg
The 300 meter wide walnut-shaped asteroid's specifics can be found here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(436724)_2011_UW158
And the background info on the painting here...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... annino.jpg
~Edward


