When you sleep soundly at night, telescopes on high mountains are constantly tracking down unknown space rocks that could fly close to Earth or potentially even hit us.
congress directs NASA to find and track the asteroids and comets that are falling into our cosmic neighborhood, which means about 30 million miles from Earth’s orbit around the Sun. Aptly referred to as “Near Earth Objects” or NEOs, thousands of sizable objects are believed to remain undetected.
Specialized telescopes in Hawaii,…
