LINEAR Is On the Watch for Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
NASA estimates that an asteroid the size of a car enters Earth’s atmosphere about once a year, creating a great fireball while burning up before reaching Earth’s surface; and roughly every 2,000 years, a football-stadium-sized meteoroid strikes Earth potentially causing significant damage. When will...
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| Language: | en_US |
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MIT Lincoln Laboratory
2021
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130523 |