Asteroid 1998 OR2: Space rock passes by Earth safely
By France24
04 May 2020 |
3:38 pm
In this week’s edition of Tech 24, we tell you how an asteroid dubbed 1998 OR2 came within 3.9 million miles of our planet, prompting scientists to qualify it as a near-Earth object.
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