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Keeping Earth safe from impact: NAU astronomer worked with international team to conduct global planetary defense exercise

Posted by Heather Tate on June 21, 2019

Cristina Thomas standing in front of the Discovery Channel Telescope in Happy Jack, AZScientists have discovered nearly all “extinction-scale” Near-Earth Objects, or NEOs (asteroids larger than 1 kilometer in diameter) and determined they pose no risk of impact in the near future. But there are still thousands of smaller NEOs that pose a potential danger.

NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) coordinates the detection… Read more

Filed Under: Astronomy and Planetary Science Tagged With: asteroid, astronomers, Cristina Thomas, David Trilling, discovery channel telescope, Double Asteroid Redirection Test, Global planetary defense, Icarus, International Asteroid Warning Network, lightcurve observations, NASA, near earth objects, NEOs, space, TC4 asteroid

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