This 1964 photo shows the Centaur upper-stage rocket. Space object budget 2020 SO is one of them.
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Come back, Surveyor 2 Centaur Rocket Booster. We just got a new chapter in a Beaterswit space saga that includes a fire launch, a doomed moon mission and space wandering for decades.
NASA, a rocket booster used to use the Surveyor 2 lunar lander in 1966, has returned to us for a temporary spin as a mini-moon in orbit around the Earth. When scientists discovered it in September, they named it 2020 S.O. On Wednesday, NASA announced that the bizarre object budget has been positively identified as a ’60’s booster.
When Booster did its work admirably in 1966, Lander could not avoid a crash landing on the lunar surface.
The exclusive orbit of the booster around the sun Astronomers said it was probably not an asteroid, One of the many space stones that zip around our cosmic neighborhood. Some stuttering pulled the booster closer to Earth in 1966.
Telescope observations have now revealed the stainless steel design of the 2020 SO. This cosmic detective work compared spectrum data on a mysterious object with data collected on a well-known Centaur rocker booster that has been floating in space since 1971. It was a match.
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Due to the surrounding mystery and the fact that it was captured in Earth orbit, the interest budget has attracted a lot of interest due to the mini-moon visiting it a little. This Virtual Telescope Project 2020 S.O. When it came close to Earth on November 30th.
The Centaur Booster will be with us for a few months, but is expected to continue its space adventures in orbit around the Sun sometime in March 2021. We have Goodnight, Centaur. Goodnight, Mini-Moon “
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