Fake asteroid? NASA expert IDs mystery object as old rocket

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Fake asteroid? NASA expert IDs mystery object as old rocket

22 hours ago · The rocket, meanwhile, swept past the moon and into orbit around the sun as intended junk, never to be seen again — until perhaps now. Potty training: NASA tests new $23M titanium space toilet A telescope in Hawaii last month discovered the mystery object heading our way while doing a search intended to protect our planet from doomsday rocks.


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A telescope in Hawaii last month discovered the mystery object heading our way while doing a search intended to protect our planet from doomsday rocks. The object promptly was added to the International Astronomical Unions Minor Planet Centers tally of asteroids and comets found in our solar system, just 5,000 shy of the 1 million mark



Aug. 13, 1965 photo provided by the San Diego Air and Space Museum shows an Atlas Centaur 7 rocket carried by a truck at Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA's leading asteroid expert, Paul Chodas, speculates that asteroid 2020 SO, as it is formally known, is actually a Centaur upper rocket stage that ...

[tjshorty]

Interesting read.  Thanks for posting it.

[timvolley]

i hadnt heard this before

[ktheodos]

Interesting story....thanks for sharing