'Very Exciting' 300-Year-Old Baby Asteroids Are Youngest Pair Ever Found

Explaining how young asteroids 2019 PR2 and 2019 QR6 are, astronomer Petr Fatka said 300 years is like "this morning—not even yesterday—in astronomical timescales."

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