According to Gizmodo, "Last month, a fireball lit up the skies over Botswana just hours after scientists first spotted the space rock hurtling toward Earth.
Gizmodo网站消息称,“上个月,一个火球点燃了博茨瓦纳的天空,而就在几个小时前,科学家们首次发现有宇宙岩石朝着地球飞奔而来。
Researchers from Botswana, South Africa, Finland, and the United States have now found pieces of the meteorite."
来自博茨瓦纳、南非、芬兰以及美国的研究人员现在已经发现了陨石的碎块。”
They discovered the asteroid is six-foot-wide and they've named it 2018 LA.
他们发现该小行星有六英尺宽,研究人员将其命名为2018 LA。
They are currently researching its fragments to find out what the asteroid is made of.
目前他们正在研究这些碎片希望找出这个小行星是由何种物质组成。
They hope their research will help cultivate the future of asteroid mining and deflecting.
他们希望他们的研究能够帮助开发小行星采矿和偏离的未来。
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