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“When I first read these poems and was trying to describe them to a friend, I said they felt cosmic, even though they often take place in Shoptaw’s backyard or around his Berkeley neighborhood.”
The asteroid, called 2024 DW, is expected to come as close as 140,000 miles to our planet on Thursday - even closer than the moon.
Thales Alenia Space will supply NEO Surveyor’s S-band transponder, K-band modulator and K-band travelling wave tube amplifier to transmit data 1.5 million kilometers between L1 and Earth.
In the glare of the sun, an unknown number of near-Earth asteroids move on unseen orbits. A new generation of infrared telescopes could be our best defense against potential disaster.
The discovery could rewrite what we know about potentially dangerous space rocks and help better protect our planet from a future a impact.