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Nature 405, 285-287 (18 May 2000) | doi:10.1038/35012723

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Astronomy: The comet no one saw

Michael F. A'Hearn

With all the work that is going into searching for near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), one might think that any comets approaching Earth would also be discovered. It is expected that, with some increase in the current effort, all near-Earth objects greater than 1 km in diameter will be catalogued within a couple of decades.