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Sudden Passers-by . . . April 16, 2020 12:48 pm DanS

Newly Discovered Sneaky Little Asteroid Flew by Earth Wednesday
The asteroid came closer than the moon, but still zipped safely by our planet.

By Amanda Kooser | Freelance Tech Writer

CNET.COM – April 15, 2020 | NASA is tracking around 20,000 near-Earth asteroids, and that number grows all the time thanks to space rocks like 2020 GH2, a newly discovered asteroid that cruised by our planet early in the morning Pacific time on Wednesday.


This NASA graphic depicts the orbits of the Earth, the moon and the asteroid 2020 GH2 during its Earth flyby on April 15, 2020. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

The International Astronomical Union issued a Minor Planet Electronic Circular on Saturday confirming the asteroid’s discovery.

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