An Asteroid Zipped Through Earth’s Shadow Last Night
A new light upon asteroid give our major planet a close brush last nighttime — and in what may be an astronomical first , observers managed to film the outer space rock pass in and out of Earth ’s shadow . 2016 VA , an object more or less the duration of a commercial bus , was discovered yesterday by the Mount Lemmon Sky Survey in Arizona , and later by the International Astronomical Union’sMinor Planet Center ....