But take note of its name. Near-Earth objects like these have for a number of
years been named starting with the year of their discovery; we only found out
about this Olympic-swimming-pool-sized rock kicking around in our cosmic
neighbourhood a year ago.
BBC News - Asteroid, Russian meteor: Can we know about every space rock?
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