Portal talk:Current events/2018 June 2

Comet ZLAF9B2 discovered before impact
This edit was first based by OP on this and this source... and with this corroborating picture from Project Pluto. Wakari07 (talk) 08:32, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Given weight by this OFM (a South African commercial media) article and a NASA CNEOS JPL SCOUT risk assessment. There's also speculation on an ITV News report with witness observations in Yunnan Province and by the Yunnan Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but this seems far off from the Project Pluto pixels, so I removed that. Wakari07 (talk) 09:13, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

What's remarkable about this (as far as I can judge) is that, despite its small size, it was discovered hours before a 82%-probability of impact was apparently successfully attributed, around one hour and a half before the asteroid's disintegration/evaporation/impact somewhere in Botswana or South Africa. Wakari07 (talk) 10:47, 3 June 2018 (UTC)