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A 200-foot asteroid that just missed Earth last week wasn’t detected until two days later [TechSpot]
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Astronomers at the Atlas Observatory in South Africa first spotted 2023 NT1 on July 15, two days after making its closest approach to Earth. The asteroid entered a 60,000-mile radius of the planet – about 1/4 the moon’s distance to Earth.