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  • Two Asteroids Make Close Flybys of Earth

    02/08/2018 9:39:35 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 14 replies
    The two asteroids are called 2018 CB and 2018 CC, and they were both discovered February 4 through an automated telescope search called the Catalina Sky Survey, according to NASA's Minor Planet Center. The Catalina telescopes belong to just one of many observatories worldwide that regularly scan the sky to track and search for space rocks, also known as asteroids. While the majority of asteroids in Earth's solar system orbit in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, asteroid flybys of Earth happen several times a year. The last known close asteroid flyby was on Sunday (Feb. 4). The flybys...