Planetary Defense: NASA’s Next-Generation Asteroid Impact Monitoring System Goes Online - SciTechDaily

Planetary Defense: NASA’s Next-Generation Asteroid Impact Monitoring System Goes Online - SciTechDaily
The new system improves the capabilities of NASA JPL’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies to assess the impact risk of asteroids that can come close to our planet. To date, nearly 28,000 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) have been found by survey telescopes that …
ByNASA's Jet Propulsion LaboratoryDecember 6, 2021 This diagram shows the orbits of 2,200 potentially hazardous objects as calculated by JPL’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Highlight… [+10361 chars] Read More



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