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Asteroid 2020 TF6 will come within 40% of moon’s distance on October 19 – EarthSky

Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project captured an image of the asteroid last night.

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View larger. | Near-Earth asteroid 2020 TF6. October 18, 2020. A telescope tracked the fast apparent motion of the asteroid. This is why stars show as long trails, while the asteroid looks like a bright and sharp dot of light in the center of the image, marked by an arrow. Image via Gianluca Masi/ Virtual Telescope Project.
Later today, the near-Earth asteroid 2020 TF6 will have an extremely close, but safe, approach with our planet, reaching a minimum distance from the Earth of about 93,000 mi…

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