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ASTEROID 1998 OR2

May 5, 2020

On 29 April 2020, the asteroid (52768) 1998 OR2 passed at a distance of 0.042 AU (6.3 million km) from Earth.

About:

  • (52768) 1998 OR2 (provisional designation 1998 OR2) is an asteroid on an eccentric orbit with a diameter of 2 kilometers.

  • It is a member of the dynamical Amor group of near-Earth asteroids.

  • It was discovered in 1998, by astronomers of the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program at the Haleakala Observatory, Hawaii.

  • It is one of the brightest and therefore largest potentially hazardous asteroids known to exist.

Source : News18

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