Mystery space object orbiting Earth is rocket from 1966 failed moon mission
A mysterious object temporarily orbiting Earth is a 54-year-old American rocket, not an asteroid after all, astronomers confirmed on Wednesday.Observations by a telescope in Hawaii clinched its identity, according to Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.The object was classified as an asteroid after its discovery in September. But Nasa's top asteroid expert, Paul Chodas, quickly suspected it was the Centaur upper rocket stage from Surveyor 2, a failed 1966 moon-landing…