NASA Predicts Location of Meteor Impact

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2022_WJ1 Fireball’s orbit before earth impact. Photo credit: Tomruen, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

The Lunar and Planetary Institute reports that NASA was able to predict the location that WJ1 would impact earth soon after its discovery by the Catalina Sky Survey in Tucson, Arizona.

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