near earth object
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How to Find and Report Asteroids Because Your Life Is Boring Otherwise
Along with puzzles, knitting, and baking banana bread, backyard astronomy was something a lot of people got into at the beginning of the pandemic. Two years later, there may not be the same enthusiasm for checking the weekly night-sky forecast and adding upcoming meteor showers to your calendar, but it’s an activity that has been…
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Should You Be Worried About the ‘Potentially Hazardous’ Asteroid Passing by Earth Today?
Today, even as you struggle to focus on work after the weekend you hopefully enjoyed, a giant space rock is screaming through space within a “potentially hazardous” distance of Earth. The chances of a resultant armageddon are (and always have been) exceedingly thin, as the asteroid 2021 KTI is passing within 4.5 million miles of…