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Record number of unknown asteroids seen whizzing past Earth in 2020 – And it could be broken again in 2021Less than 50% Astronomers detected thousands of previously unknown near-Earth asteroids last year. And this record may be broken this year AGAIN… Record year in 2020 Since 1998, when NASA kicked off the biggest search for near-Earth asteroids, scientists have detected more than 25,000 of them. And 2020 turned out to be a record year for discoveries. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic interrupting many of the surveys, astronomers catalogued 2,958 previously unknown near-Earth asteroids over the course of the year. [ link to strangesounds.org (secure)]
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