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Edge-on View of Near-Earth Asteroids
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NEOWISE, the asteroid-hunting portion of NASA WISE mission, illustrates the differences between orbits of a typical near-Earth asteroid blue and a potentially hazardous asteroid, or PHA orange. PHAs are a subset of the near-Earth asteroids NEAs.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineEdge-on View of Near-Earth Asteroids. NASA/JPL, 2012-05-16. Public domain. ID: PIA15627.
