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2020 SO

Unknown astronomical object 2020 SO makes its closest approach to Earth at a perigee distance of approximately 0.13 lunar distances (50,000 km; 31,000 mi). Researchers, who discovered 2020 SO on September 17, 2020, are still unsure whether the object is a small near-Earth asteroid or an artificial object. The booster of Surveyor 2's Atlas-Centaur rocket, launched by NASA in 1966, is suspected by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

How to see a mysterious object that might be space junk fly near Earth today

Sources:  CNET


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  1. Unknown astronomical object "2020 SO" makes its closest approach to Earth at a perigee distance of approximately 0.13 lunar distances (50,000 km; 31,000 mi). Researchers who discovered "2020 SO" on September 17, 2020, are still unsure whether the object is a small near-Earth asteroid or artificial object. The booster of Surveyor 2's Atlas-Centaur rocket, launched by NASA in 1966 is suspected by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
  2. Unknown astronomical object 2020 SO makes its closest approach to Earth at a perigee distance of approximately 0.13 lunar distances (50,000 km; 31,000 mi). Researchers, who discovered 2020 SO on September 17, 2020, are still unsure whether the object is a small near-Earth asteroid or an artificial object. The booster of Surveyor 2's Atlas-Centaur rocket, launched by NASA in 1966, is suspected by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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