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Impact of NEO 2022 WJ1
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2022-12-01, 07:06 PM
This NEO impacted earth on 2022 Nov 19 08:27 UT in Southern Ontario, Canada. It was detected only 3 hours before impact & would have missed but for earth's gravitational pull.

Here's the Wikipedia article:

2022 WJ1 - Wikipedia

Pretty cool,

Phil S.
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2022-12-03, 04:56 AM (This post was last modified: 2022-12-03, 04:57 AM by bigmasterdrago.)
It was interesting to see the excitement build the night of discovery at Mt. Lemmon......
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