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Crowdsourcing the Hunt for Potentially Dangerous Asteroids

Image: Faulkes Telescope, Hawaii. Credit: ESA

What’s the best way to look for potentially hazardous asteroids? Get as many eyes on the sky as you can. That’s the impetus behind a new partnership between the European Space Agency and the Faulkes Telescope Project, which will encourage amateur astronomers to look for asteroids, as well as providing educational opportunities that will allow students to discover potentially dangerous space rocks, too.

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