An asteroid the size of a delivery truck is set to whip past earth this morning in one of the closest such encounters ever recorded. 7NEWS
Borisov already made a name for himself in 2019 when he used a homemade telescope to discover a comet, later labelled 2I/Borisov, that crossed our solar system on its journey from deep space.Instead of circling the sun every 359 days, it will move into an oval orbit lasting 425 days, according to NASA.
Researchers have identified about 27,000 asteroids near earth, including 10,000 with diameters greater than 140 metres.
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