Asteroid Crosses Satellite Orbit and Records Greater Approximation with Earth in the Year

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The night before the Sun hid behind the Moon in one of the largest solar eclipses that has seen the Canary Islands in two decades and the Perseids illuminated the celestial dome with their green flashes, an adventured asteroid approached the Earth more than anyone else has this year. The star object the size of a guagua, baptized as 2026 PC6, was captured from the Canary Islands just 14,573 kilometers away from our planet. That is, the asteroid …

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The month of August recorded an impressive phenomenon in the astronomical radars, starring the asteroid 2026 PC6, which established the greatest approximation of a celestial body to our planet this year. Information validated by the Near-Earth Object Studies Center, department belonging to Nasa, point out that the space fragment reached exactly 20,400 [...]