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Environment
9:44 am
Wed January 9, 2013

Kansas Man Finds Potentially Hazardous Asteroid

Credit Bryan Thompson / Kansas Public Radio
Gary Hug stands by his homemade telescope in Scranton, Kansas.

An eastern Kansas man who built his own telescope and operates it from a shed in his back yard has discovered a previously unknown and potentially hazardous asteroid.

Gary Hug lives near Scranton. He was trying to help plot the orbit of a known Near Earth Object when he noticed something Sunday night that appeared to be moving too slow to be a satellite, but too fast to be a main belt asteroid.

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