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@NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office detects, tracks, and characterizes Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) to enable mitigation of potential future NEO impacts.

NASA Asteroid Watch @asteroidwatch ·

March 21, 2023

A newly discovered #asteroid named 2023 DZ2 will safely pass by Earth on Saturday at 100K+ miles away. 🌎

While close approaches are a regular occurrence, one by an asteroid of this size (140-310 ft) happens only about once per decade, providing a unique opportunity for science.

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NASA Asteroid Watch @asteroidwatch ·

March 20, 2023

The dinos were made extinct by an asteroid impact many years ago. At NASA, experts are making sure we can actually do something about it if we ever needed to in the future. Hear from actor Adam Driver & real life planetary defender Dr. Kelly Fast on how: https://go.nasa.gov/PlanetaryDefense

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NASA @nasa ·

March 17, 2023

What could we do if an asteroid threatened Earth? 65 actor Adam Driver and @AsteroidWatch discuss how we monitor asteroids, preventing a possible impact, and why we’re bringing asteroid samples here with #OSIRISRex. (There are no known threats to Earth for 100+ years.)

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