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How Earth’s gravity changed record-breaking space rock’s path forever

Posted on August 21, 2020 by Agitator!!

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.

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