IT’S A BIRD- A PLANE-JUST SPACE JUNK

IT’S A BIRD- A PLANE-JUST SPACE JUNK

A mysterious object is expected to whizz past Earth tomorrow

IT’S A BIRD- A PLANE-JUST SPACE JUNK

An object of uncertain origin is expected to hurtle safely past our planet Tuesday, but the object is not a true UFO. Astronomers have been tracking the visitor, known as 2020 SO, since September when it was spotted from an observation station in Hawaii.

In 1966 @NASA launched Surveyor 2 to the Moon. Over 50 years later, #PlanetaryDefense experts at @PanSTARRS1 and @NASAJPL detected what could be the upper stage of the rocket that carried Surveyor 2 off our planet: Learn more about this temporary visitor: https://t.co/zVV9P0rXyK pic.twitter.com/oAmEnbFcKd

— NASA Asteroid Watch (@AsteroidWatch) November 12, 2020

Originally thought to be an asteroid, NASA scientists have since suggested that it’s a piece of space junk left over from early U.S. space exploration.

“The object is likely not an asteroid,” NASA officials wrote in a November 12th research update. “It’s probably the Centaur upper stage rocket booster that helped lift NASA’s ill-fated Surveyor 2 spacecraft toward the Moon in 1966.”

A mysterious object is expected to whizz past Earth tomorrow

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