MaiionPostBot@chat.maiion.comB to c/Technology@chat.maiion.comEnglish · 1 year agoNew algorithm spots its first "potentially hazardous" near-Earth asteroid — and it's 600 feet longwww.cbsnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareorangeNgreen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year ago Additional observations confirmed the discovery and found that the asteroid’s closest approach brings it within 140,000 miles of Earth’s orbit, placing it closer than the moon.