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Will an Asteroid Smack Jupiter in 2022?
PHA asteroid 2014 KM4 on approach to Jupiter in late 2021. Credit: the Solar System Dynamics JPL Small-Body Database Browser.
A recent space rock discovery has sent a minor buzz through the community that tracks such objects. And as usual, it has also begun to attract the dubious attention of those less than honorable sites — we won’t dignify them with links — that like to trumpet gloom and doom, and we thought we’d set the record straight, or at very least, head the Woo off at the pass as quickly as possible.(…)
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Post tags: 2014 KM4, asteroid to hit jupiter, Comet Shoemaker Levy 9, jupiter 2022, NEOWISE, Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
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