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Artwork of a near-Earth asteroid passing our planet, seen as a blue crescent. Based on actual images of the Earth and the asteroid Mathilde. Image credit: Earth: ESA/Rosetta;Mathilde:NEAR Spacecraft Team, JHUAPL, NASA; assembled by Phil Plait

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Artwork of a near-Earth asteroid passing our planet, seen as a blue crescent. Based on actual images of the Earth and the asteroid Mathilde. Image credit: Earth: ESA/Rosetta;Mathilde:NEAR Spacecraft Team, JHUAPL, NASA; assembled by Phil Plait
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Phil Plait (badastro@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 15:34:54 JST Phil Plait

Halloween's a-comin', so here's something really scary: An asteroid that wasn't discovered until *after* it had already passed us.
(But we're working on a way to find these...)
Bonus: a classic but hard-to-find scifi doomsday movie you can watch online.
https://badastronomy.substack.com/p/wanna-see-something-really-scary

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