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Post #3: news of a small asteroid that will pass Earth in May of 2026
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https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/18/science/ … id=ios_app
The article includes discussion of the difficulty of determining the size of the object.
The object is thought to be on the order of two school buses in size, but the reflectivity of the object is uncertain.
I suspect that in the not too distant future all such near Earth objects will be captured and harvested.
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