Near-Earth Asteroid Turns Out to Be Surveyor 2 Centaur Rocket Booster

Every time we hear of a new near-Earth object (NEO) being discovered, our hearts skip a beat, and our brains go “what if this is the one that ends all life on Earth?” Something like this happened last September when a thing called 2020 SO came into the spotlight. Discovered by the Pan-STARRS1 survey telescope on Maui, 2020 SO caught everybody’s eye because of its size and peculiar orbit. ...