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bendrany t1_j61bysz wrote

Reply to comment by patasthrowaway in Asteroid 2023 BU about to pass Earth in one of closest ever encounters by C1519

I got excited about this one after hearing repeatedly from different sources (bad ones I guess) that it would be visible to the naked eye before I looked it up and read about the asteroid myself...

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patasthrowaway t1_j61f9rd wrote

Hey I'm no space scientist, maybe the thing is made of ice and incredibly reflective; highly doubt you'll see it if you live outside of latin america tho

Come to think of it, it already passed half an hour ago lol

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bendrany t1_j61flyw wrote

Yeah, I'm just browsing the sub now since I remembered the local time it was passing and I figured why not go out and see if there's anything there haha.

Kinda hard when I couldn't find anything about what direction to look towards here and since it was the closest to latin america I probably had no chance anyways being located all the way up in Norway.

Always fun browsing r/space though!

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