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Near-Earth asteroid

Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are asteroids whose orbits are close to Earth's orbit.

Note:   The above text is excerpted from the Wikipedia article "Near-Earth asteroid", which has been released under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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