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New space telescope could spot potentially hazardous asteroids heading for Earth By Ashley Strickland, CNN enablePagination: false endIndex: A new space telescope that could spot potentially hazardous asteroids and comets heading for Earth is one step closer to reality. Courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech (CNN) — A new space telescope that could spot potentially hazardous asteroids and comets heading for Earth is one step closer to reality. The Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope, or NEO Surveyor, has been approved by NASA to move forward to the design phase. The 20-foot-long (6-meter-long...

Breathe easy: New space telescope could spot potentially hazardous asteroids heading for Earth Share Updated: 8:46 PM CDT Jun 30, 2021 By Ashley Strickland, CNN Share Updated: 8:46 PM CDT Jun 30, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript mhm. Mhm. Yeah. According to Nasa every year at least one car sized asteroid makes its way into our atmosphere and while asteroid 2021 KT one won't be making landfall in our home planet, it is going to be coming pretty darn close and it's a whole lot bigger than a car. Nasa has classified the asteroid up potentially hazardous objec...

NASA NEO Surveyor space telescope moves into its next phase Shane McGlaun - Jun 13, 2021, 9:43am CDT NASA announced on Friday that it has approved a new infrared space telescope called the Near-Earth Object Surveyor or NEO Surveyor. The telescope moves to the next step of mission deployment at the JPL after a successful review moved the project past the preliminary design phase. NEO Surveyor was a mission proposed to help discover and characterize near-earth objects that could be potentially hazardous to the Earth. NASA defines a near-Earth object as an asteroid or comet th...