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Our hearts go out to the defenders of our
freedom
There are a number of objects,
either being Comets or Asteroids or other vagabonds of the Universe that
have been classified as “Near Earth Objects”. Those that are designated as
“NEO” are Earth orbit crossing objects. These celestial objects have the
potential of possible future collision with Earth. To be aware of
these possibilities and know before hand if such an event is calculated to
occur, researchers continue to study and identify these objects in our
solar system. Everyday new objects are identified and added to this list.
The “NEO” project is partially designed for just this. If we are able to
detect one of these objects in advance, it will allow us time to prepare.
But, currently one of the major issues driving these projects is the
pursuit to study and learn from these objects which can tell us of the
history of our solar system, as well as that of the Universe.
Why do we continue to detect new objects
everyday?
Are new objects coming into our solar system?
It is
not that there is a continued flow of these objects coming from either the
Apollo asteroid belt or the Oort cloud into our solar system, but we are
simply coming across other objects that have not yet to be found which
came along with larger groups in past collisions or gravitational
influences to these various sites.
The Coder Observatory is focused on the tracking and discovery of Minor Planets and Comets, including various Centaur objects.
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