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>>Brajes+(OP)
"but this one was unique because it was first detected by scientists roughly three hours before impact — only the eighth time that researchers have spotted one of these space rocks before it hit."

Maybe I did not read close enough but how is it "first"?

>>tocs3+QV
The word "first" in that sentence means the first detection of this asteroid, not that it was the first asteroid detected in the same way.

>>terafl+cX
then what imparts the "unique" characteristic?

>>s1arti+Ds1
I think "unique" is being used in the figurative sense of "very unusual".

>>olddus+fT1
Interesting, I have literally never head it used that way. Doubly so in the same sentence as the comparable events.

Im not trying to debate, just surprised that is even considered an option.