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New Mini-Moon Might Actually Be Old Space Junk Coming Back to Haunt Us – Gizmodo
Earth will soon welcome a temporary mini-moon, but this newly detected object, an apparent asteroid, might actually be of unnatural origin—a booster rocket dating back to the 1960s.
Earth will soon welcome a temporary mini-moon, but this newly detected object, an apparent asteroid, might actually be of unnatural origina booster rocket dating back to the 1960s.
The object, designated 2020 SO, was spotted recently by astronomers using the Pan-STARRS1 telescope in Hawaii. Its expected to become a temporary mini-moon, a phenomenon that happens from time-to-time, when passing asteroids make a few loops around Earth before resuming their celestial journeys around the Sun. This …
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