'Tiny' Asteroid Picked Up
By Warning Systems, Just Hours Before Striking Earth.
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Tiny asteroids like 2022 EB5 are numerous, and they impact into the atmosphere quite frequently -- roughly every 10 months or so.
, Paul Chodas, JPL's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, via CNN.
But very few of these asteroids have actually been detected in space and observed extensively prior to impact, , Paul Chodas, JPL's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, via CNN.
... basically because they are very faint until the last few hours, and a survey telescope has to observe just the right spot of sky at the right time for one to be detected, Paul Chodas, JPL's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, via CNN.
Scout had only 14 observations over 40 minutes from one observatory to work with when it first identified the object as an impactor. , Davide Farnocchia, Navigation Engineer at JPL, via CNN.
We were able to determine the possible impact locations, which initially extended from western Greenland to off the coast of Norway. , Davide Farnocchia, Navigation Engineer at JPL, via CNN.
As more observatories tracked the asteroid, our calculations of its trajectory and impact location became more precise, Davide Farnocchia, Navigation Engineer at JPL, via CNN.