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Daily Minor Planet Volunteers Spot an Asteroid Passing Close to Earth

Volunteers working with The Daily Minor Planet have made the project’s first big discovery: an asteroid passing very near planet Earth. On the night of October 3rd, a telescope for the Catalina Sky Survey snapped four pictures of a far northern section of the sky. The next day, volunteers  H. N. DiRuscio, X. Liao, V. Gonano and E. Chaghafi spotted a clear streak moving through each image and quickly notified the Daily Minor Planet team.

https://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/citizen-science/daily-minor-planet-volunteers-spot-an-asteroid-passing-close-to-earth/

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