The asteroid 2020 QG won’t soon forget its run-in with Earth.
“It’s really cool to see a small asteroid come by this close, because we can see the Earth’s gravity dramatically bend its trajectory,” Paul Chodas, director of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said in a statement. “Our calculations show that this asteroid got turned by 45 degrees or so as it swung by our planet.”
For more, check out this Space.com story.