For nearly three decades, 1998 SH2 looked like a fairly ordinary near-Earth asteroid. It was discovered in 1998, catalogued, and followed through a 4½-year orbit around the Sun. Then, during a close but safe pass by Earth in August 2025, its motion refused to match the path astronomers had calculated. The explanation, announced by NASA […]

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