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IIT Bombay students discover closest known asteroid to fly by Earth – ClickLancashire

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After the detection of asteroid, many more telescopes were placed for immediate investigation to get more information about it. JTF co-investigator Tom Prince said, “Asteroids passed so close to Earth that the Earth’s gravity could change its orbit”.
The 2020 2020 QG, the closest to Earth, passed on Sunday.
The object will come close to our atmosphere but the probability of it impacting earth is very small at just 0.41%. Even if it had been on a collision course with Earth, it wouldn’t have ca…

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