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Is NASA Aware of Any Earth-Threatening Asteroids? We Asked a NASA Expert

Earth for at least 100 years. But that doesn’t mean we’re not looking. Asteroid expert Davide Farnocchia of our @NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory breaks it down.

Learn about how we track asteroids: https://www.nasa.gov/asteroids

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