An asteroid is spotted 2 hours before it slams into the Earth at 11 miles per second - Interesting Engineering

Astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky detected a tiny asteroid via the Schmidt telescope at the Piszkésteto Mountain Station two hours before it collided with the Earth's atmosphere north of Iceland.

It's such a rare occasion for astronomers to detect an asteroid before it impacts the Earth that only 4 asteroids had been spotted before they entered the Earth's atmosphere: 2008 TC3, 2014 AA, 2018 … [+2060 chars]

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