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Learn what happens now that NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration has shut down its planetary defence mission that tracks asteroids… https://ausgeo.co/nasaasteroidtracking

Since its launch in 2011 until this year, when it is being returned to Earth, NASA's NEOWISE mission detected more than 3000 objects with the potential to collide with our home planet.

The planetary defence mission will be replaced by an improved system in 2027, which leaves us wondering what happens for the next three years without asteroid monitoring.

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