19 April 2019
If the idea of an asteroid slamming into Earth keeps you up at night, spare a thought for a mission called NEOWISE, which reincarnated a former astrophysics spacecraft to hunt for nearby space rocks.
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 Large asteroid to safely pass Earth on September 120 August 2017 Asteroid Florence, a large near-Earth asteroid, will pass safely by Earth on Sept. 1, 2017, at a distance of about 7 million kilometres, or about 18 Earth-Moon distances. Florence is among the largest near-Earth asteroids that are several miles in size; measurements from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and NEOWISE mission indicate it’s about 4.4 kilometre. more... |
| NEOWISE boosts potentially hazardous asteroid discoveries 24 July 2016  After two years of operations, the NEOWISE space mission is consistently beating ground-
based telescopes in its fraction of detected possibly dangerous asteroids to Earth.
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2016/04/10: Asteroid-hunting spacecraft delivers a second year of data
2015/11/17: Secondhand spacecraft has firsthand asteroid experience
2015/04/03: NASA Asteroid Hunter Spacecraft Data Available to Public
2014/01/16: NEOWISE spots ’potentially hazardous’ asteroid
2014/01/08: Recently reactivated NASA spacecraft spots its first new asteroid
2013/12/22: Reactivated NASA asteroid-hunting probe takes first photos in 2.5 years
2013/12/20: NASA’s Asteroid Hunter Spacecraft Returns First Images after Reactivation
2012/05/20: NASA predicts 4,700 ’potentially hazardous’ asteroids lurk in Earth’s neighbourhood
2010/10/05: NEOWISE
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