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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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Successful observing slot with the OGS telescope

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-07 11:25 UTC

During the last observing run with the ESA 1-m telesope on Tenerife (the OGS = Optical Ground Station) the SSA-NEO programme successfully recovered three 'lost' NEOs. In addition, one new NEO was...

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The Recovery of 2009 FD, a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2019-06-06 15:01 UTC

The first recovery campaign carried out by the ESA NEO Coordination Centre in coordination with ESO, using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) (VLT telescopes on the Paranal mountain in Chile (credit:...

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2024 LH1, the second closest close approach

Type: Web Content Article
Date/Time: 2024-06-12 13:12 UTC

What can we learn from close approachers?

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