In Search of Dark Asteroids (and Other Sneaky Things)

[Marduk2012 Profile]

As of August 2009, 6,244 NEOs have been discovered: 65 near-Earth comets and 5,409 near-Earth Asteroids. Of those there are 453 Aten asteroids, 2,053 Amor asteroids, and 2,894 Apollo asteroids. There are 943 NEOs that are classified as Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs). Currently, 138 PHAs and 743 NEAs have an absolute magnitude of 17.75 or brighter, which roughly corresponds to at least 1 km in size.


Asteroid 4179 Toutatis is a Potentially Hazardous Object that has passed within 2.3 Lunar distances


Flyby of Asteroid 2004 FH. The other object that flashes by is an artificial satellite.

Don´t Forget Jupiter 07/19/2009





The Orbit simulator
http://lasp.colorado.edu/education/oute ... simulator/










Track near earth asteroid orbital paths;
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=99942;orb=1
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/Dangerous.html




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-Earth_object

[Avimoas Profile Website]

detect, track & characterize potentially hazardous asteroids & comets that could approach Earth.

http://twitter.com/AsteroidWatch