Topic: Near-Earth Object Program

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California fireball produces jackpot for meteorite hunters (+video)

Meteorite hunter finds pieces of a mini-bus sized meteor that lit up in the skies above California and Nevada this week. More pieces of the meteor are expected to be found as hunters scour the area.
Jet-airliner-sized April Fools' Day asteroid buzzes Earth (+video)

About 150 feet wide, asteroid 2012 EG5 hurtled past our planet Sunday, passing closer than the moon.
Asteroid 2011 MD buzzes Earth, nearer than some satellites

Asteroid 2011 MD, reached its closest point to Earth just after 1 p.m. EDT, when it crept within 7,500 miles of Earth before whipping away again like a slingshot.
Huge asteroid to buzz Earth in November

On November 8 and 9, the quarter-mile-wide asteroid 2005 YU55 will zoom past the Earth, coming within about 200,000 miles, a distance closer than our moon.
Apophis asteroid will probably almost certainly not smash into Earth, say scientists

Apophis asteroid: Russian scientists are warning that a rock the size of two football fields is poised to strike our planet in 2036. But NASA says the odds are just one in a quarter million.
NASA: Object that hurtled past Earth was space junk, not asteroid

A small object that buzzed our planet this month is likely a spent rocket stage, and not an asteroid, NASA officials said Thursday.
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Protecting Earth from asteroids

Asteroid impacts with Earth are a near-certainty, scientists say. The question is: What, if anything, should we do to track asteroids and protect Earth from them?
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Asteroid 'Apophis' will miss us this time; but 2068? Stay tuned

The asteroid Apophis is very unlikely to smack Earth in 2036. That's the good news from a large group of planetary scientists meeting this week in Puerto Rico
Jupiter collision a warning call to Earth

The list of cosmic objects that could hit Earth is growing. Scientists study satellite 'tractors' and nuclear weapons as ways to divert asteroids headed our way.