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This undated photo captured by the Hubble Space Telescope and made available by NASA on Thursday, March 28, 2019 shows the asteroid (6478) Gault that is gradually self-destructing. A newly discovered asteroid (not pictured) has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday. (NASA/ESA/K. Meech, J. Kleyna - University of Hawaii/O. Hainaut - European Southern Observatory via AP)

Newly spotted asteroid has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

This Sept. 20, 1966 photo provided by the San Diego Air and Space Museum shows an Atlas Centaur 7 rocket on the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA's leading asteroid expert, Paul Chodas, speculates that asteroid 2020 SO, as it is formally known, is actually a Centaur upper rocket stage that propelled NASA’s Surveyor 2 lander to the moon in 1966 before it was discarded. (Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection/San Diego Air and Space Museum via AP)

Fake asteroid? NASA expert IDs mystery object as old rocket

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This Aug. 13, 1965 photo provided by the San Diego Air and Space Museum shows an Atlas Centaur 7 rocket carried by a truck at Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA's leading asteroid expert, Paul Chodas, speculates that asteroid 2020 SO, as it is formally known, is actually a Centaur upper rocket stage that propelled NASA’s Surveyor 2 lander to the moon in 1966 before it was discarded. (Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection/San Diego Air and Space Museum via AP)

Mystery ‘asteroid’ may be Centaur rocket from failed moon landing

By Marica Dunn - Associated Press

Asteroid coming close Friday: Don’t worry, we’re safe

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This image released by the European Southern Observatory on Aug. 10, 2017 shows near Earth asteroid 2012 TC4, the dot at center. The image was made from a composite of 37 individual 50-second exposures, and the background stars and galaxies appear as bright trails. NASA is using the asteroid’s close flyby to test Earth’s warning network for incoming space rocks. The asteroid will pass within about 27,000 miles (43,000 kilometers) of Antarctica early Thursday, Oct. 11, 2017. (Olivier Hainaut (ESO), Marco Micheli (ESA), Detlef Koschny (ESA)/ESO/ESA NEOCC via AP)

Asteroid 2018 CB to buzz Earth Friday afternoon

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2 space rocks hours apart point up the danger

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press