Centaur Rocket Booster From the 1960's is Still in Orbit

An object discovered in September by astronomers searching for near-Earth asteroids garnered interest in the planetary science community due to its size and unusual orbit. Using data collected at NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) and orbit analysis from the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, scienti…