Inbound Asteroid Detected Few Hours Before Earth Impact

A 13-foot (4-meter) asteroid, named 2019 MO, was observed by the ATLAS Survey Telescope, just after midnight Hawaiʻi time on June 22, 2019. It impacted Earth later that day but was too small to do any damage. -- More on Livescience: https://www.livescience.com/65810-car-size-asteroid-hits-earth.html

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