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Mysterious Object 1998 KY26: Hypothesis About the Soviet Phobos-1 Station and Other Explanations

The celestial body 1998 KY26, about 11 meters in diameter, is moving with an unusual acceleration that cannot be explained by gravity alone. Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb and his colleagues have suggested it is the Soviet Phobos-1 station, lost in 1988. NASA assures there is no threat to Earth, and the answer may come from the Japanese Hayabusa2 mission in 2031.

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