Astronomers Have Spotted The Largest Potentially Dangerous Asteroid Detected In Eight Years
Twilight observations with the US Department of Energy’s Dark Energy Camera at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a program of NSF’s NOIRLab, allowed astronomers to spot three near-Earth asteroids (NEA) hiding in the glow of sun. These NEAs are part of an elusive population lurking within the orbits of Earth and Venus. One of the asteroids is the largest object potentially dangerous to Earth discovered in the last eight years....