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New telescope will scan the skies for asteroids on collision course with Earth

  • Written by Michael B. Lund, Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University
Artist depiction of an asteroid on a collision course with EarthBy Mopic/shutterstock.com

Around sunrise on Feb. 15, 2013, an extremely bright and otherworldly object was seen streaking through the skies over Russia before it exploded about 97,000 feet above the Earth’s surface. The resulting blast damaged thousands of buildings and injured...

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