Close Call: Asteroid Captured Just Before Hitting Earth
Originally Published 2 years ago — by msnNOW
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.
