How Asteroids Are Named

Sue Kientz For years, most of celebrity naming of asteroids was done by a woman in the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (a NASA center). This is because many asteroids are discovered by automation. Often there is no one person who finds them; they are found during “earth threat” […]
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