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Science
Daniel Morrow

Asteroid smacks into Earth less than two hours after being discovered by experts

An asteroid was found to have struck the Earth - less than two hours after it was discovered by experts.

Hungarian astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky first traced the fast-moving space rock at 7.24pm last Friday during observations at the Konkoly Observatory, Hungary.

Initially it was estimated that there was a one per cent chance of the asteroid - which was believed to have been a metre is diameter - hitting into the Earth.

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