NASA confirms object orbiting the Earth is a rocket booster from ill-fated 1966 Surveyor 2
It is a mystery that puzzled scientists for months, but NASA has officially confirmed the object temporarily orbiting Earth is a discarded piece of the 1966 Surveyor 2 rocket. Dubbed 2020 SO, the object was first spotted by the Pan-STARRS survey in Hawaii on September 17 and initially classified as an asteroid. However, NASA’s top asteroid expert, … Read more