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Asteroid 2020 QG - August 16, 2020

DescriptionPIA24038-Asteroid2020QG-20200816.jpg	English: PIA24038: Asteroid 2020 QG as Seen Through ZTF Telescope https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24038 The streak circled in the center of this image is asteroid 2020 QG, which came closer to Earth than any other nonimpacting asteroid on record. It was detected by the Zwicky Transient Facility on Sunday, Aug. 16 at 12:08 a.m. EDT (Saturday, Aug. 15 at 9:08 p.m. PDT). The wide-field camera image of the Zwicky Transient Facility, a sky-scanning survey telescope funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA, and based at Caltech's Palomar Observatory in Southern California. The image was taken six hours after the close approach, as the asteroid was heading away from Earth.
Date	16 August 2020
Source	https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA24038.jpg
Author	ZTF/Caltech Optical Observatories (funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation-NSF)

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