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Asteroid 2023 To Have Very Close Encounter With Earth This Week, Expected to Fly Over South America: NASA
An asteroid, about the size of a box truck, will have a very close encounter with the Earth this week, NASA Systems has predicted. Raja Chari, Indian-American Astronaut Nominated by US President Joe Biden for Promotion to Air Force Brigadier General on Moon Mission Team. The asteroid was initially spotted by amateur astronomer Gennadiy Borisov on Saturday and reported to the Minor Planet Center (MPC). "Scout quickly ruled out 2023 BU as an impactor, but despite the very few observations, it was nonetheless able to predict that the asteroid would make an extraordinarily close approach with Earth," Davide Farnocchia, a navigation engineer at JPL who developed Scout, said in a statement. Source: Latestly.com
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