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Asteroid Day LIVE 2021 Programme airs 30 June

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LUXEMBOURG, 24 June 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The Asteroid Foundation’s annual Asteroid Day LIVE programme premiers Wednesday 30 June 2021 at 18:00 CET. With the help of leading experts, Asteroid Day…

Finding & Tracking Asteroids on ADLIVE 2021

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We share the solar system with a vast population of asteroids. Starlike and mysterious, these space rocks are a fascinating collection of worldlets that date to the origin of the…

Getting to Know Asteroids on ADLIVE 2021

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Asteroid Eros, as seen by NASA’s NEAR Shoemaker mission. Credit: NASA/JPL/JHUAPL The first discovery of asteroids in the 1800s, unleashed a flood of curiosity about their composition and their role…

Asteroids and the Exploration of the Solar System on ADLIVE 2021

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Artist’s concept of Lucy spacecraft at Trojan asteroid. Credit: NASA. Asteroids are much more than left-over remnants of planetary formation, they could be the keys to the future economy. A…

Defending the Earth from Asteroids on ADLIVE 2021

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Not all asteroids live inside the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. ESA’s Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre lists more than 25,000 that are classified as near-Earth objects (NEOs). Of these,…