NASA rocket may have been confused for an asteroid entering Earth's orbit; Details inside

It was speculated that an asteroid may soon get nabbed by Earth's gravity and get fixated here, becoming a mini-moon. However, newly discovered flying object is actually appearing to be an older rocket from a failed moon mission dating over 55 years back. Paul Chodas, who is director of Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Sourn California, was first one to tice that almost circular orbit of claimed 'asteroid' was similar to Earth's which is unusual for a celestial body like asteroids.  

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Chodas spoke to Associated Press saying that it has been a hobby for him to draw such a fascinating link and has been doing same since deces. formerly kwn asteroid was titled 2020 SO, however, as of w, Chodas speculates that it is actually Centaur upper rocket st which h propeller NASA's Surveyor 2 back in 1966 before getting discarded in abyss of deep . lander back in 1966 h crashed on moon when its thrusters did t ignite ut rocket h me its way past moon, joining Sun's orbit to become junk, only to be seen deces later making a return journey to Earth's orbit, according to Paul Chodas.

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object has been deemed to be around 26 feet and 10 feet in diameter. One of key reasons which gave away it actually being a rocket is that its almost circular orbit was similar to Earth's around sun. Whereas, object was also witnessed being in same plane as blue planet, which is unusual for an asteroid. last hint at determining that object is t really an asteroid was its speed approaching Earth which is around 2,400 KMPH, being substantially slower than asteroids, according to Paul Chodas. As of w, it is t sure wher object is actually same rocket or even a rocket. As object gets closer to Earth, explorers will be able to better determination of what object actually is. As of w, even Chodas has agreed that he could be wrong on this time and that he does t want to sound overconfident. 

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