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Astronomers spot small space rock hours before it drops meteorites

A small space rock was detected just a few hours before hitting Earth’s atmosphere and landing in Canada’s Lake Ontario on Saturday (Nov. 19). 

The mini-asteroid, less than 3 feet (1 meter) wide, was spotted by astronomer David Rankin at Mount Lemmon Observatory in Arizona, according to SpaceWeather.com (opens in new tab). Subsequent observations by other astronomers confirmed that the rock, coming from the direction of the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, was on a collision course with Earth. 

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