ORBITAL SWITCH-HITTER

Amateur astronomer Bill Yeung may have discovered Apollo 12's long-lost S-IVB third stage, which entered a barely stable Earth orbit after its Nov. 14, 1969, launch due to a too-long rocket burn. It was largely forgotten and untracked until Yeung found an unknown 16.5-magnitude object in Earth orbit...

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