Thanks to Observations, a Potentially Dangerous Asteroid was Found to be Harmless By Nancy_A
published the information on their Near Earth Object information portal websites, allowing anyone — such as interested amateur astronomers — to take a look.Credit: University of Arizona.
But thankfully, when the asteroid was able to be tracked again, the accumulating data on the asteroid’s path revealed the chance of impact was dramatically decreasing over time.“In my almost ten years at ESA I’ve never seen such a risky object,” said Marco Micheli, astronomer at ESA’s Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre . “It was a thrill to track 2022 AE1 and refine its trajectory until we had enough data to say for certain, this asteroid will not strike.
The global network of telescopes that search the skies for potentially hazardous asteroids and comets, which provides a near real-time assessment of any incoming risks. Credit: ESA In the case of 2022 AE1, observations after the Moon didn’t interfere provided the data needed to show that the risk level had showed the risk level With one single observation, the risk level crashed – getting close to zero – and with that, the team moved on.
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