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Just that it's unusually close.

• RobertoG 8y ago
  As we are in paranoid mode (and it's fun to be, isn't it?): not only it's unusually close, but it seems that Earth is the planet it pass closer in all the Solar System. Maybe somebody should check if that "slightly acceleration" bring it closer or farther to Earth. Maybe we have been photographed. I hope it's not that somebody shoot us and failed.
  • ssijak 8y ago
    Aliens got us just before GDPR, sneaky bastards!
• dwaltrip 8y ago
  There is a bit of sampling bias, given that we are looking for space objects from Earth, and so it easier to detect something that comes closer to Earth. Not sure how significant the bias is for an object of this size and speed, but I'm guessing that it is probably a relevant factor.