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Two Killer Asteroids Are Flying by Earth, and You May Be Able to See One

27 June 2024 at 05:03
The smaller of the pair was spotted only this month and could be visible with binoculars as it passes by our planet within the distance to the moon.

Β© European Space Agency

A visualization of the orbit of (415029) 2011 UL21, a near-Earth object that completes 11 revolutions around the sun in almost the exact same amount of time in which Earth completes 34 revolutions (i.e., 34 years), creating this pattern when plotting the asteroid’s location relative to Earth.
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