Asteroid alert – Halloween asteroid hurtles towards earth
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Lola Gayle, STEAM Register There are now a total of 15,000 known near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), and we’re adding an average of 30 new discoveries every single week. That’s a 50 percent increase in the number of known NEAs since 2013, when discoveries reached 10,000 in August of that year. “The rate of discovery has been high…
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