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b'For 16 years, since its discovery at Lowell Observatory, humans knew 1999 JD6 only as a strange, spinning, moving point of light in the night sky. It orbits the Sun once every 303\\xa0days on\\xa0a path that brings it\\xa0relatively\\xa0close to Mercury, Venus, and Earth. \\xa0In the far distant future this small world is likely to collide with one of these planets, or the Sun, or be ejected completely\\xa0from the solar system. \\xa0A RADAR movie made with a radio telescope reveals 1999 JD6 to be two asteroids in contact with each other giving the object a peanut shape. \\xa0Strangely enough 1 in 6 Earth approaching objects are like 1999 JD6 in that they are really two separate objects whose tiny forces of gravity keep them in contact as they orbit the Sun.'