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7 space objects NASA is monitoring more closely than ever

Space is not as empty as it looks. Right now, as you read this, NASA scientists are actively watching dozens of objects drifting, spinning, and hurtling through our cosmic neighborhood, some of them ...
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Webb Measures Size Of That Scary-Not-Scary ‘City Killer’ Asteroid

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Apr 02, 2025, 04:49pm EDT Apr 02, 2025, 05:13pm EDT This artistic ...
Astronomy

How we track near-Earth asteroids

JWST imaged 2024 YR4 in late March, making it the smallest object the telescope had imaged to date. The data its instruments collected indicate that based on the amount of heat it gives off, 2024 YR4 ...
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Asteroids III / William F. Bottke, Jr. ... [et al.], editors ; with 150 collaborating authors ; foreword by Tom Gehrels

An overview of the asteroids : the Asteroids III perspective / W.F. Bottke Jr. ... [et al.] -- Giuseppe Piazzi and the discovery of Ceres / G. Foderà Serio, A. Manara and P. Sicoli -- Asteroid orbit ...