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Space news: Asteroid 2020 SO could be NASA’s Surveyor 2 Centaur upper rocket stage – 7NEWS.com.au
It seems Asteroid 2020 SO may not be an asteroid at all.
The jig may be up for an asteroid thats expected to get nabbed by Earths gravity and become a mini-moon next month.
Instead of a cosmic rock, the newly discovered object appears to be an old rocket from a failed moon-landing mission 54 years ago thats finally making its way back home, according to NASAs leading asteroid expert.
Observations should soon help nail its actual identity.
Director of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Paul Chodas, speculate…
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