near-Earth objects

Scientists who study near-Earth objects say the collision risk is very real.

This name was later adopted by a number of real life efforts to discover and study near-Earth objects.

Of all the recorded near-Earth objects to date, none would have received a score greater than 1.

Astronomers use astrometric techniques for the tracking of near-Earth objects.

He said Britain ought to increase its involvement in international cooperation on near-Earth objects.

The correlation between mas extinctions and impacts of near-Earth objects.

Cometary fragmenting may also be responsible for some impacts from near-Earth objects.

The Institute's orbit@home is a distributed computing project through which the public can help in the search for near-Earth objects.

The scientific goals of both surveys range from the nature of dark energy to assessing near-Earth objects.

"We've really begun now the in-depth reconnaissance of so-called near-Earth objects," he said.

He looks at Near-Earth objects through a telescope.

Sixteen months later, the first batch of data was made available to astronomers, including discoveries of comets and other near-Earth objects.

Near-Earth objects are classified as meteoroids, asteroids, or comets depending on size and composition.

Potential near-Earth objects were handled expeditiously so that other observers could locate the asteroid on the same night and make further observations.

"This is because the problem of Near-Earth Objects is now being properly addressed," he said.

In fact, 1994 CC is only the second triple system known in the near-Earth objects population.

Present research includes work on the interstellar medium, globular cluster formation, infrared astronomy, and near-Earth objects.

By the end of the decade we expect to know the orbits of 90% of the kilometer size near-Earth objects.

Pete Worden has long been a proponent of robotic and, more recently, crewed space missions to near-earth objects.

He is an ardent follow-up observer of near-earth objects and a keen developer of astronomical software.

As with many near-Earth objects, Toutatis was in 2004 the object for fear mongering by some doomsayers.

More recently the tracking of near-Earth objects will allow for predictions of close encounters, and potential collisions, with the Earth.

These near-Earth objects were probably derived from the Kuiper belt, beyond the orbit of Neptune.

NASA extended the mission in October 2010 to search for near-Earth objects.

Asteroid mining refers to the possibility of exploiting raw materials from asteroids and other minor planets, including near-Earth objects.