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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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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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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Spaceguard (redirect from Near-Earth Object Program)
discover, catalogue, and study near-Earth objects (NEO), especially those that may impact Earth (potentially hazardous objects). Asteroids are discovered...
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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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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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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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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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NEO Surveyor (redirect from Near earth object camera)
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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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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(29075) 1950 DA (redirect from Rapidly Moving Object Wirtanen)
(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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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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CINEOS program (Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey), started in 2001, is dedicated to the discovery and follow-up of near-Earth objects (NEOs)...
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Sentry (monitoring system) (redirect from Scout (NASA program))
prediction system started in 2002 and operated by the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It continually...
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An Earth-crosser is a near-Earth asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Earth as observed from the ecliptic pole of Earth's orbit. The known numbered Earth-crossers...
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1007/978-3-540-29925-7_3783. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. "Earth Impact Risk Summary: 29075 1950 DA". NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office. 26 November 2013. Archived from...
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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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(367789) 2011 AG5 (category Near-Earth objects removed from the Sentry Risk Table)
designation 2011 AG5, is a sub-kilometer asteroid, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group. It has a diameter...
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Asteroid impact avoidance (redirect from Near Earth asteroid defense)
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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99942 Apophis (category Near-Earth objects removed from the Sentry Risk Table)
Apophis (provisional designation 2004 MN4) is a near-Earth asteroid and a potentially hazardous object, 450 metres (1,480 ft) by 170 metres (560 ft) in...
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367943 Duende (category Near-Earth objects removed from the Sentry Risk Table)
Duende (provisional designation 2012 DA14) is a micro-asteroid and a near-Earth object of the Aten and Atira group, approximately 30 meters (98 ft) in diameter...
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(89959) 2002 NT7 (category Near-Earth objects removed from the Sentry Risk Table)
(89959) 2002 NT7 (provisional designation 2002 NT7) is a near-Earth object with a diameter of 1.4 kilometers and potentially hazardous asteroid of the...
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2009). "Asteroid Impactor Reported over Indonesia". NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office. Archived from the original on October 26, 2009. Retrieved...
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Purple Mountain Observatory (redirect from Purple Mountain Observatory Near-Earth Object Survey Program)
two Hildian, and one Phocaea asteroid. The program has also observed the position of 824 near-Earth objects (NEOs) and discovered four new ones: the Apollo...
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2000 SG344 (category Potential impact events caused by near-Earth objects)
been near the Earth in 1971 (coinciding with the Apollo program), there was speculation that 2000 SG344 might not be an asteroid but a man-made object such...
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2014 XL7 (category Near-Earth objects removed from the Sentry Risk Table)
2014 XL7 is a near-Earth object and Apollo asteroid, approximately 230 meters (750 feet) in diameter. It was the most dangerous potentially hazardous...
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(454101) 2013 BP73 (category Near-Earth objects removed from the Sentry Risk Table)
designation 2013 BP73, is a sub-kilometer asteroid, classified as a near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group, approximately...
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doi:10.1016/s0168-1923(02)00253-8 "Sentry Risk Table". NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office. 9 December 2014. Archived from the original on December...
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was the 7-kilometer sized main-belt asteroid 4121 Carlin. List of near-Earth object observation projects "Featured profile: Eleanor Francis Helin". WITI...
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2004 FH (category Near-Earth objects in 2004)
micro-asteroid and near-Earth object of the Aten group, approximately 30 meters in diameter, that passed just 43,000 km (27,000 mi) above the Earth's surface on...
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