Defenders of Planet Earth - Survey Telescopes That Spot Asteroids
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Channel: VideoFromSpace · 2017 · Entertainment
Learn more: https://www.space.com/37406-asteroid-detection-nasa-videos.html Two ground-based telescope account for “90 percent of all near-Earth object discoveries,” according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Astronomers from Catalina Sky Survey in Mt. Lemmon, Arizona, and the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (PanSTARRS) in Hawaii explain how the survey telescope work: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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