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What If You Could See Asteroids In the Night Sky?

An anonymous reader writes: As part of Asteroid Day a 360-degree video rendering the night sky with the population of near-earth asteroids included has been created by 'Astronogamer' Scott Manley. The video shows how the Earth flies through a cloud of asteroids on its journey around the sun, and yet we've only discovered about 1% of the near earth asteroid population.

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  1. Re:We'd probably be more on protecting ourselves. by ArcadeMan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, right. I'm pretty sure that's not going to happen any time so{#`%${%&`+'${`%&NO CARRIER