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Five Recent Discoveries or Explorations about the NEO’s.

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What are the Five

Recent Discoveries
or Explorations
about the NEO’s?
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1. Scientists have discovered that comets

could be bounced from one planet's orbit to
another, slowing their movement and
colliding with a planet's surface, delivering
intact molecules believed to be precursors
to life, potentially providing a new way to
study life.
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2. On December 6th, 2023, an asteroid named as

"Asteroid (139622) 2001 QQ142" passed by earth
safely. It has a distance of 5,520,500 km from the
planet's surface. This asteroid is approximately the
size of the country Vatican City, stated by an
official from the European Space Agency's
Planetary Defence office. It was discovered in the
year of 2001 and will be back in 2045, said by the
official
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3. Asteroid 2023 RQ6 belongs to the Apollo

group of Near-Earth Asteroids, named after
the giant 1862 Apollo asteroid, discovered by
German astronomer Kerl Reinmuth in the
1930s. They are Earth-crossing space rocks
with semi-major axes bigger than Earth's.
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close encounter
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4. Asteroid 2023 CX1 was discovered on

Feb 12 at 20:18 UTC, almost 7 hours prior
to impact, by Krisztián Sarneczky at the
GINOP KHK observatory in Hungary,
nearly 7 hours before its impact. JPL's
Scout system identified the asteroid's
trajectory, and over 300 observations were
made to determine the exact path and time
of the predicted fireball.
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5. 2022 WJ1, a small asteroid, was

predicted to collide with Earth on
November 19, but astronomers
predicted it. The asteroid broke up in
southern Ontario, Canada, likely
scattering small meteorites. This marks
the sixth time a small asteroid has been
tracked in space before impacting
Earth's atmosphere.
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