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GROWTH-India telescope

August 3 , 2024 19 hrs 0 min 12 0
  • The GROWTH-India telescope caught the building-sized asteroid on its closest approach to Earth.
  • The telescope is stationed at the Indian Astronomical Observatory site at Hanle, Ladakh.
  • This is 116m, building-sized asteroid on its closest approach to earth at just 10x lunar distance.
  • GROWTH-India is India's first fully robotic optical research telescope.
  • It is one of the world’s highest Astronomical observatories at 4,500 meters.

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