Image courtesy of :
ATLAS/University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy/NASA.
Joel Komtinen ,
“A skyscraper-size asteroid was revealed in year-old telescope data.”
This was due to a new algorithm that could detect the way near-Earth objects are discovered.
The 180 meters or 600 feet wide asteroid , which now it named 2022 SF289 , flew cöose enough to Earth to crete havoc ,
It is three times the
size of the one that blew out windows in Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013 will zip
by Earth at half the distance of the moon on Saturday or March 25. and some scientist say that a space rock destroyed the city of Sodam,
Source:
Specktor, Brandon, 2023, 'Potentially hazardous' 600-foot asteroid detected near Earth after a year of hiding in plain sigth. l ive Science. 3 August.
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