topics:asteroids

<title>Near Earth Objects (NEOs) & Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs)</title>

Introduction

Some intro reading materials about NEOs and PHAs.

NEO Survey Act
CNEOS
- Read “NEO Basics”
- There are other useful info in this website including: (1) NEO orbit into, (2) impact risk, (3) discovery statistics, (4) recent flybys (“fireballs”), and (5) other (potentially technical) documents.
NEO Surveyor

There are various levels of interest in NEOs PHAs.

China is getting serious about planetary defense .

Check CNEOS for various discovery statistics and database of NEOs.

TBA

Important pending tasks (or notes/ideas) to complete the simulation.

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