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BookmarkThe Torino Scale is a method for categorizing the impact hazard associated with near-Earth objects (NEOs) such as asteroids and comets..
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Near-Earth object — Near-Earth objects (NEO) are asteroids, comets and large meteoroids whose orbit intersects Earth's orbit and which may therefore pose a collision ... > read more
Near-Earth asteroid — Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are asteroids whose orbits are close to Earth's orbit. Some NEAs' orbits intersect Earth's so they pose a collision ... > read more
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 — Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9, formally designated D/1993 F2) was a comet which collided with Jupiter in 1994, providing the first direct observation ... > read more
Space debris — Space debris or orbital debris, also called space junk and space waste, are the objects in orbit around Earth created by man that no longer serve any ... > read moreNote: This page refers to an article that is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the article Torino Scale at Wikipedia.org. See the Wikipedia copyright page for more details.
