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Small Asteroid Strikes Africa Just Hours After It Was Spotted
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:02:08
Publish Date: 2018-06-08 06:13:27
Description: A meteor lit up the sky over Botswana, Africa, early Saturday evening. Scientists discovered the six-foot-wide asteroid just hours before it reached Earth. NASA tracks 90 percent of near-Earth objects that are larger than 150 meters (~460 feet) in diameter, which means it misses lots of the smaller ones until they’re close by. This most recent rock, called 2018 LA, was spotted on June 2 by the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona.
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