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Near-Earth Asteroids

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The NASA Center for Near-Earth Objects Studies (CNEOS) maintains a catalog of all Near-Earth Asteroids known to date. A near-Earth asteroid is an asteroid whose orbit brings it into proximity with Earth. By convention, a Solar System body is considered "near Earth" if its closest approach to the Sun is less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU).


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