Graph showing the amount of near-Earth asteroids discovered over time, which has at least tripled in the past ten years (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Graph showing the amount of near-Earth asteroids discovered over time, which has at least tripled in the past ten years

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Graph showing the amount of near-Earth asteroids discovered over time. Most notably, the current total of almost 32,000 asteroids is at least triple the amount that had been detected ten years ago. Catalina Sky Survey alone has discovered over 14,400 near-Earth asteroids, including 1,200 in the past year.

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Alan Chamberlin/JPL-Caltech

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