Last year, more than 100 astronomers from around the world participated in an exercise in which a large, known, and potentially hazardous asteroid was essentially removed from the planetary defense-monitoring database to see whether it could be properly detected anew.
Not only was the object “discovered” during the exercise, its chances of hitting Earth were continually reassessed as it was tracked, and the possibility of impact was ruled out. The exercise confirmed that the international planetary defense community can act swiftly to identify and assess hazards posed by a new near-Earth asteroid discovery.
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Awesome to hear about all of these events, massive amounts of work by folks from all around the globe; extraordinary potential there could be out there, beyond the reaches of our minds!