Close Call: Asteroid Captured Just Before Hitting Earth

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Close Call: Asteroid Captured Just Before Hitting Earth
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A small asteroid, named 2022 EB5, was discovered just hours before it impacted Earth. It was spotted by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly Observatory in Hungary. The asteroid was captured on camera by Sárneczky and its orbit was later tracked by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory-California Institute of Technology.

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