Designation of an asteroid that the IAU this week predicted has a 1 in 500 chance of hitting the earth on September 21, 2030, a Saturday.

The asteroid had a diameter of about 70 meters. It might be a discarded Saturn rocket or a deadly lump of iron racing towards us to deliver asteroid destruction over a limited area of the earth.

It was spotted using the Canada France telescope on Manua Kei in Hawaii.

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