CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — What looks like an asteroid may just be an old rocket from a failed moon-landing mission more than 50 years ago.
The newly spotted object is expected to get nabbed by Earth's gravity and become a mini moon next month.
NASA's leading asteroid expert thinks it is the upper rocket stage from a 1966 mission.
Observations as the object draws closer should help nail its identity. He speculates the object is the Centaur stage from NASA's Surveyor 2 mission, dating back to 1966.
It's expected to shoot back out into its own orbit around the sun next March.
