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Despite their best efforts, astronomers recently discovered a blind spot in telescope algorithms. Large asteroids coming from this direction will be undetected by NASA. Fortunately, there are a few countermeasures for this asteroid danger.

This is the warning of University of Hawaiʻi experts who investigated how telescopes nearly missed a 328-feet-wide asteroid that came within 43,500 miles of Earth back in 2019.

The hulking asteroid, more than 3,300 feet across, will speed past Earth at around 45,000 miles per hour on Tuesday.

It seems one can’t buy a car these days that isn’t equipped with obstacle-detection and accident-avoidance systems to compensate for the blind spots that hide these dangerous encounters. Too bad the same isn’t true for planets! NASA just revealed that its fancy-schmancy asteroid detection system has a major blind spot that causes it to miss... Read more »

NASA is currently working on a 2005 task outlined by the US Congress to catalogue and track an absolute majority of potentially dangerous NEOs – objects in... 16.01.2022, Sputnik International

Planetary defence stepped up as astronomers catalogue potential threats and develop ways to prevent devastating impacts

Asteroid 7482 (1994 PCI), one of the Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs), will swoop past Earth next week, and it is really massive.

NASA classifies asteroid as 'potentially hazardous' - Anadolu Agency

TRENTON, Canada - An asteroid wider than the tallest building in the world will cross Earth's orbit next week, media reports said Wednesday. Named 7482 (1994 PC1), the asteroid is slated to fly by Jan. 18 but is not expected to threaten Earth with a direct collision. But it will come within roughly 1.2 million miles, close enough to earn the "potentially hazardous" label from NASA for its "potential to make threatening approaches to the Earth," according to the space agen...

An asteroid over twice the size of the Empire State Building will pass Earth next week and is defined as "potentially hazardous."