ASTEROID COUNT

The estimate on the number of large asteroids in the vicinity of the solar system has been reduced as a result of observations made by NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking System (Neat). Neat began tracking near-Earth asteroids and comets in 1995 with a charge-coupled device camera on a 1-meter U.S...

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