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Near-Earth Asteroids and the Asteroid Belt

A Field Guide to the Planets · Season 1 · Episode 10
How collisions with asteroids can be avoided, with 20,000 asteroids identified in near-Earth orbit; why these rocky bodies, and those in the Asteroid Belt, never accrete into planets; how their resources can be harnessed for future space travel.

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Season
1
Episode
10
Air Date
08/Nov/2019
Air Time
Runtime
33 min

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How collisions with asteroids can be avoided, with 20,000 asteroids identified in near-Earth orbit; why these rocky bodies, and those in the Asteroid Belt, never accrete into planets; how their resources can be harnessed for future space travel.

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