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washingtonian.comAndrew Zaleski

Inside NASA's Campaign to Detect and Neutralize Tens of Thousands of Hazardous Asteroids

NASA says our Solar System contains tens of thousands of potentially dangerous asteroids that could annihilate a city or worse. A dedicated NASA office is leading planetary‑defense efforts to detect, track and, when necessary, neutralize Earth‑bound threats before they can strike.

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