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An NEO over Antarctica

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-05 12:57 UTC

Asteroid 2016 RB1 has hit the news because of a peculiar close passage on 7 September 2016 at 19:20 CEST. About the size of a cottage, the asteroid flew past our planet at an altitude of 34000 km,...

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Making history: 15000 NEAs and counting…

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-05 14:16 UTC

The number of known near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) has just surpassed the threshold of 15000. That is a 50% increase over the number known in 2013, when we posted a similar news item on our portal for...

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The 2016 WJ1 precoveries: back to the future

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-05 14:48 UTC

The word "precovery" has entered the astronomical jargon rather recently but it quickly grew in popularity among asteroid hunters. It refers to the finding of an archival observation of an object...

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NELIOTA: ESA's new lunar monitoring project in collaboration with the National Observatory of Athens

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 13:30 UTC

NELIOTA is an activity initiated by the European Space Agency (ESA), which was recently launched at the National Observatory of Athens. The project aims to count and characterise the number and...

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