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What Spaceguard did

A survey of large objects near Earth has shown that there is little risk of a cataclysmic impact in the next century. Alan Harris asks if such cataloguing efforts should continue.

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Figure 1: Estimate of the cumulative population of near-Earth objects (NEOs) versus size.
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Harris, A. What Spaceguard did. Nature 453, 1178–1179 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/4531178a

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