near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) : NASA reveal Dramatic Increase on previous count

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near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) — space rocks that get within about 30 million miles (50 million kilometers) of our planet's orbit.

In 1999, identified NEAs speckled the inner solar system thinly, in a light dusting. Many more were discovered by 2009, and Earth's neighborhood looks absolutely swamped in the present-day portion of the video (2018).

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scientists estimate that just one-third of the 450-footers out there have been spotted to date.

The video also maps all of the known asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter. The belt is home to the vast majority of all known space rocks, the current tally of which tops 780,000, according to NASA researchers.



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This site lets you search NEO's and sort the data by the various measurements.

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Try 'view all available data' ; Normal dist <1LD ; No H Limit. Sort by date, descending and then on page 5 maybe, we'll have one pass by TOMORROW! (2019-3-22) But no Doom... distance will be as far as the moon and onlyy tiny at 50m wide [link to ssd.jpl.nasa.gov (secure)]

However, 2028-Jun-26 05:23 ± < 00:01, at 600m-1.5km and much closer at just over half the distance between Earth and the Moon, maybe Doom. [link to ssd.jpl.nasa.gov (secure)]

Of course they'll say no chance of these rocks hitting us but what else can they say? It's happened before, it will happen again.

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Last Edited by Didyabringyabongalong on 03/20/2019 11:32 AM