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Impact of NEO 2022 WJ1 - PMSchu - 2022-12-01

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.


RE: Impact of NEO 2022 WJ1 - bigmasterdrago - 2022-12-03

It was interesting to see the excitement build the night of discovery at Mt. Lemmon......