The Spaceguard Centre & Observatory The Spaceguard Centre is the only organisation in the UK addressing the hazard of Near Earth Objects.NEOs are asteroids and comets that come close to, and sometimes collide with the Earth. Such impacts can have devastating effects – they have in the past and will in the future unless we use available technologies to prevent them. |
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SUSPECTED METEORITE WAS CONCRETE LUMP THAT FELL FROM PASSING PLANE A suspected meteorite that landed on a cricket pitch was in fact a lump of concrete probably dislodged from the bottom of a passing aircraft, experts have concluded. |
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RESEARCHERS SAY ASTEROID HAS 1 IN 1,000 CHANCE OF HITTING EARTH IN 2182 Asteroid trackers from Spain have upgraded the chance that asteroid 1999 RQ36 could hit our planet, saying it now has a one-in-a-thousand chance of impacting the Earth in the year 2182. |
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'METEORITE' LANDS ON CRICKET PITCH DURING COUNTY MATCH When two spectators standing on the boundary at a cricket match saw an object hurtling down from the sky, their first instinct might have been to applaud. |
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