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Asteroid's surprise close approach illustrates need for more eyes in the sky

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-12-23 09:37 UTC

On 25 July, an asteroid the size of a football field flew by Earth, coming within 65 000 km of our planet’s surface during its closest approach – about one fifth of the distance to the Moon.

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ESA’s Planetary Defence Office actively participates at PDC 2019 in the Washington area

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 11:34 UTC

ESA’s Planetary Defence Office (PDO) has participated with several presentations at the 6th IAA Planetary Defense Conference held in College Park, near Washington, between 29 April and 3 May.

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Known near-Earth asteroids reaches 20 000 – and keeps growing!

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Date/Time: 2019-06-06 11:29 UTC

The number of known near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) reached the round total of 20 000 this week. This family of asteroids whose orbit brings them close to Earth is steadily growing at a pace of roughly...

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ESA's bug-eyed telescope to spot risky asteroids

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-07 09:36 UTC

Spotting Earth-threatening asteroids is tough partly because the sky is so big. But insects offer an answer, since they figured out long ago how to look in many directions at once.

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