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NASA expert IDs fake asteroid as old rocket fragment
NASA's Paul Chodas suggests the object 2020 -O is the Centaur upper rocket stage from Surveyor 2, launched in 1966. The near Earth approach and orbit alignment support a space junk identity, with further observations to confirm. Carrie Nugent calls the link solid and well supported.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Earth
NASA
Paul Chodas
Associated Press
Moon
Chodas
Center For
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California
Canada
Carrie Nugent
Olin College of Engineering
Needham
Massachusetts