Posted on 11/30/2020 12:45:56 PM PST by BenLurkin
The object, dubbed 2020 SO by astronomers, will come within "just" 31,605 miles of our planet at 3:50 a.m. ET on December 1, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS.)
This is an "extremely close," albeit safe, approach...
The object, which is estimated to measure between 15-33 feet across, was discovered by the Pan-STARRS survey based in Maui, Hawaii, on September 17, 2020. This find was confirmed two days later by the Minor Planet Center, which is responsible for the designation of minor bodies in the solar system.
Initial observations suggested that the object was an asteroid. But scientists at CNEOS soon began to suspect that 2020 SO was not a normal asteroid.
CNEOS director Paul Chodas subsequently suggested that 2020 SO may not be an asteroid at all, tentatively identifying it as the Centaur rocket booster from NASA's failed Surveyor 2 lunar mission, which launched on September 20, 1966.
He came to this conclusion after turning back the clock and running the object's orbit backwards using a computer model to work out its past trajectory through space.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
It’s probably just a drop box full of Biden votes that got lost by the USPS.
God, she was just beautiful.
I’m guessing here that the chances of it hitting a specific home in Chappaqua are low.
Three men on horses with sealed letters in their hands? The time for the three horsemen has come.
What goes up, must come down...even when it has escape velocity!
Only 49.
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