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Title: Ten Thousandth Near-Earth Object Discovered‏
Post by: Dingo on June 26, 2013, 12:33:28 PM
NASA Science News for June 25, 2013

The count of known asteroids and comets that can come close to Earth continues to climb. The 10,000th near-Earth object, asteroid 2013 MZ5, was detected on June 18, 2013, by the Pan-STARRS-1 telescope.

FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/24jun_neo/ (http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/24jun_neo/)