Earth’s latest visitor is about to leave us forever – BGR

• In late 2020 Earth got a new visitor in the form of what was originally thought to be a natural piece of space debris, such as a small asteroid.
• The object turned out to be a discarded rocket stage that was launched half a century ago and just happened to come back and get sucked up by Earth’s gravitational pull.
• Now, as it completes its final loop of our planet, the object will soon fling itself back out into space, and isn’t likely to visit our planet again.

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