Tragic to Earth right now is a mysterious object that will pass us by early Tuesday morning, and in full 2020 fashion … no one is sure what the heck it is.
The unmanned spacecraft has been dubbed the “2020 SO” and is set to fly 31,605 miles from our planet at 3:50 a.m. ET on December 1, very close, but at a safe distance.
The discovered object was discovered by a Pan-Stars survey back in Hawaii in September, and initially, it was thought to be an asteroid approximately 15-33 feet.
However, scientists at NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Ject Budget Studies (CNEOS) soon began posting that it was not just an asteroid or a “natural body.”
Instead, the CNEOS director Paul Chodas Records say they believe the object is NASA’s failed Surveyor 2 lunar mission centurion rocket booster … which returned on September 20, 1966.
Fourteen used a set of computer science and maths to keep an eye on the exam behind the 2020 SO orbit … to come to the conclusion … that it probably started from Earth.
Of course, scientists will be able to observe the object more closely to determine what it really is … and here’s hoping it’s more exciting than space junk.
Not likely, though.
