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  • Scientists discover far-off threat in ‘planet killer’ asteroid

    11/01/2022 9:37:19 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 17 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | October 31, 2022 05:53 PM | by Ryan King, Breaking News Reporter
    video at link................ Scientists have discovered three elusive asteroids lurking in a region of space near the sun often cloaked by solar glare, including one they say has the capacity to deliver planetary devastation. One of the asteroids, 2022 AP7, is roughly 1 mile wide and crosses Earth's orbit trajectory around the sun, rendering it one of the most "hazardous" asteroids discovered in the past eight years, a team of researchers announced Monday. “Our twilight survey is scouring the area within the orbits of Earth and Venus for asteroids," said Scott Sheppard, an astronomer at the Earth and Planets Laboratory...