Amateur astronomer spotted a potentially dangerous asteroid just days before it flew past Earth

The move marks a major change in space law, which has treated space as something that belongs to everyone on Earth

An amateur astronomer said our potentially dangerous asteroid was heading for Earth just days before it passed us.

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Yet experts have noted that relatively large objects can be easily lost as it approaches Earth, and it has repeatedly warned that without large-scale tracking, the planet could be at risk of unexpected collisions.

The object – officially known as Astroids 2020 Q – was first discovered by Leonardo Amaral on August 2 at the Campo do Amarais Observatory in Brazil. It’s September 10 that made it the closest flyby to Earth.

“This discovery reminds us that we have found most of the big SEOs [Near-Earth Objects]“We haven’t found them all,” Casey Dreyer, chief advocate and senior space policy adviser at Planetary Society, said in a statement.

“We must continue to support ground-based astronomers and invest in new space-based capabilities like NEOSM [Near-Earth Objects Surveillance Mission] To protect the earth now and in the future.

NASA was tasked by the U.S. Congress to find and search for about 90 percent of the world’s objects 150 meters or larger by 2020. But it has struggled to do so even in the face of higher funding applications: it has found only 40 percent of its objects, and it is not expected to reach its target for another 30 years.

The Planetary Society noted that most of the largest asteroid-hunting projects are based in the Northern Hemisphere, meaning that those that come south of the Earth’s equator are at higher risk of being lost. Thus the projects started by Mr. Amaral are the main thing to spot asteroids which might otherwise be missed.

The last asteroid to fly past Earth after the object arrived relatively late. Such identification is a cause for concern because they suggest that dangerous asteroids could arrive without detection – but the discovery should be a cause for hope rather than a concern, says one expert.

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