The Spaceguard Centre & Observatory The Spaceguard Centre is the only organisation in the UK addressing the hazard of Near Earth Objects.NEOs are asteroids and comets that come close to, and sometimes collide with the Earth. Such impacts can have devastating effects – they have in the past and will in the future unless we use available technologies to prevent them. |
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| PROPOSED MISSION WOULD RETURN SAMPLE FROM ASTEROID TIME CAPSULE Meet asteroid 1999 RQ36, a chunk of rock and dust about 1,900 feet in diameter that could tell us how the solar system was born, and perhaps, shed light on how life began. |
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| GETTING WISE ABOUT NEMESIS A dark object may be lurking near our solar system, occasionally kicking comets in our direction. |
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| DARK, DANGEROUS ASTEROIDS FOUND LURKING NEAR EARTH An infrared space telescope has spotted several very dark asteroids that have been lurking unseen near Earth's orbit. |
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