Looking Up - Last Sunday was International Asteroid Day
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Last Sunday was International Asteroid Day. This was celebrated mainly on Monday when people were back at work, when Kechil attended a talk given by Marco Micheli of the European Space Agency's Space Situational Awareness Planetary Defence Office. Here he is talking to Kechil about why it is important to devote attention to asteroids. Here in South Africa, we have a telescope which is part of the international ATLAS consortium which surveys the sky tracking and looking for asteroids.
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