NASA’s NEOWISE Completes Scan for Asteroids and Comets

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And there weren’t any!

No, only kidding…

NASA’s NEOWISE mission has completed its survey of small bodies, asteroids and comets, in our solar system. The mission’s discoveries of previously unknown objects include 20 comets, more than 33,000 asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, and 134 near-Earth objects (NEOs). The NEOs are asteroids and comets with orbits that come within 45 million kilometers (28 million miles) of Earth’s path around the sun.


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2 thoughts on “NASA’s NEOWISE Completes Scan for Asteroids and Comets

  1. …and 134 near-Earth objects (NEOs). The NEOs are asteroids and comets…

    OH NOES WERE ALL GOIN TO DIIIIEEEE!!!11!!!!

    …also reminds me: been meaning to read Phil Plait’s “Death from the Skies!”

    Just wondering too: Would Near Earth Objects, Comets Orbiting Nearby be NEOCONs?

    I’ll stop now.

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