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Today's 2 topics:

- Newly discovered 2016 AM2's path had a zero distance between it and the Earth's orbit.

- Within the space of 31 hours the NASA/NEOWISE spacecraft reported the discovery of a pair of comets: C/2015 X8 & C/2015 YG1.

 

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