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Nature 453, 1143 (26 June 2008) | doi:10.1038/4531143a; Published online 25 June 2008
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Abstract
The study of cosmic impacts and the effects they have offers two lessons for students of science.
On 15 June, a telescope near Tucson, Arizona, picked up a relatively fast-moving dot in the sky: an asteroid of the sort the telescope is designed to seek. Now known as 2008 LV16, this small rock's orbit takes it from well out beyond Mars to almost as far sunward as Venus, passing by Earth on the way.
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