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    15%) Atens: 2,952 (7.9%) Comets: 123 (0.33%) Atiras: 34 (0.09%) A near-Earth object (NEO) is any small Solar System body orbiting the Sun whose closest...
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    hazardous object (PHO) is a near-Earth object – either an asteroid or a comet – with an orbit that can make close approaches to the Earth and which is...
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    Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS) was a project designed to discover asteroids and comets that orbit near the Earth. The project, funded...
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  • DANEOPS, the DLR-Archenhold Near Earth Objects Precovery Survey, has been initiated to systematically search existing photographic plate archives for precovery...
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    scale is a method for categorizing the impact hazard associated with near-Earth objects (NEOs) such as asteroids and comets. It is intended as a communication...
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    Technology's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic detection and tracking of near-Earth objects. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid discoveries from...
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  • Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) was a program run by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, surveying the sky for near-Earth objects. NEAT was conducted...
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    The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) is the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL's) facility for computing asteroid and comet orbits and their...
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    program (Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey), started in 2001, is dedicated to the discovery and follow-up of near-Earth objects (NEOs), namely asteroids...
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    NEO Surveyor, formerly called Near-Earth Object Camera (NEOCam), then NEO Surveillance Mission, is a planned space-based infrared telescope designed to...
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    asteroids, also known as interior-Earth objects (IEOs), are Near-Earth objects whose orbits are entirely confined within Earth's orbit; that is, their orbit...
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    2456 Palamedes, and the eponymous 3494 Purple Mountain. The Chinese Near-Earth Object Survey (CNEOS), based at the Xuyi Station (D29) in Xuyi, Jiangsu,...
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  • The Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite (NEOSSat) is a Canadian microsatellite using a 15-cm aperture f/5.88 Maksutov telescope (similar to that...
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    avoidance encompasses the methods by which near-Earth objects (NEO) on a potential collision course with Earth could be diverted, preventing destructive...
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    number of smaller objects of historical or scientific interest, such as comets and near-Earth objects. Many trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) have been discovered;...
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    The Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre (NEOCC) is the main centre of the Planetary Defence Office of the European Space Agency (ESA). The NEOCC, which...
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  • This is a list of possibly hazardous near-Earth objects with Torino scale rankings that are non-zero or that were, at one time, non-zero. The Torino scale...
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    2024 MK (category Near-Earth objects in 2024)
    2024 MK is a S-type near-Earth object with a diameter around 150 meters that flew past Earth on June 29, 2024. It was discovered by ATLAS South Africa...
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    asteroid close approaches to Earth in 2025. Near-Earth object detection technology began to improve around 1998, so objects being detected as of 2004 could...
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  • scale used by astronomers to rate the potential hazard of impact of a near-Earth object (NEO). It combines two types of data—probability of impact and estimated...
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    discover, catalogue, and study near-Earth objects (NEO), especially those that may impact Earth (potentially hazardous objects). Asteroids are discovered...
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    conjunction with B612 Foundation members, helped obtain UN oversight of near-Earth object (NEO) tracking and deflection missions through COPUOS along with its...
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    (provisional designation 1950 DA) is a risk-listed asteroid, classified as a near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group, approximately...
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  • (696513) 2016 NL56 (category Near-Earth objects removed from the Sentry Risk Table)
    is a near-Earth object (NEO) and a potentially hazardous object (PHA), meaning that it has an orbit that can make close approaches to the Earth and large...
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    Near-Earth objects are asteroids whose orbits can bring them within about 0.3 astronomical units of the Earth. There are thousands of such objects that...
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  • 2024 PT5 (category Near-Earth objects in 2024)
    2024 PT5 is a near-Earth object roughly 11 meters (36 ft) in diameter discovered by ATLAS South Africa, Sutherland on 7 August 2024, the day before approaching...
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    rediscovery of the original 1928 UF, and this object was named 3789 Zhongguo, which is also a name for China. The near-Earth asteroid (29075) 1950 DA was discovered...
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  • focal plane curvature. Zooniverse — Galaxy Zoo Supernovae List of near-Earth object observation projects Law, Nicholas M.; Kulkarni, Shrinivas R.; Dekany...
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  • 2017 MZ8 (category Near-Earth objects removed from the Sentry Risk Table)
    MZ8) is a near-Earth object and a potentially hazardous asteroid, meaning that it has an orbit that can make close approaches to the Earth and large enough...
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  • 238,860 mi)) from Earth in 2025, as of 8 April 2025[update], based on the close approach database of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS)....
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