# Found space object proves we are not alone \[Nothing is proven\]

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**Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-space-object-proves-we-are-not-alone-nothing-is-proven/931237/34 "2021-01-22T22:56:11Z")

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> [@rboyce](#):
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> I did and thanks for the link.  
> Learning is the path to knowledge and with your help I am a bit smarter

You’re gonna love this one.

> **[433 Eros](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/433_Eros)**
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> Eros (minor planet designation (433) Eros; provisional designation 1898 DQ) is a stony asteroid of the Amor group, and the first discovered, and second-largest near-Earth object. It has an elongated shape and a volume-equivalent diameter of approximately 16.8 kilometers (10.4 miles). Visited by the NEAR Shoemaker space probe in 1998, it became the first asteroid ever studied from its own orbit.
> The asteroid was discovered by German astronomer C. G. Witt at the Berlin Observatory on 13 August 1...

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