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    A small asteroid flying past Earth on 12 October will provide scientists with a valuable opportunity to learn more about its orbit and composition. 10 August 2017 Asteroid 2012 TC4 will fly past Earth in October 2017 9178 Votes: 182
    21 June 2017 Looking at Earth from an Asteroid 284 Votes: 7
    Trail of the Chelyabinsk asteroid crossing Russian skies on 15 February 2013 21 June 2017 Chelyabinsk Asteroid 353 Votes: 6
    24 May 2017 Lunar impact flash 220 Votes: 1
    Concept for ESA's future space debris surveillance system employing ground-based optical, radar and laser technology as well as in-orbit survey instruments. 26 April 2017 Surveillance network 7 Votes: 0
    ESA’s optical ground station on Tenerife helps research and survey space debris and is one of the world’s top-ranked instruments used for debris research 13 April 2017 Eye on debris 2142 Votes: 59
    ESA is developing an automated telescope for nightly sky surveys. This telescope is the first in a future network that would completely scan the sky and automatically identify possible new near-Earth objects, or NEOs, for follow up and later checking by human researchers. 14 February 2017 Flyeye Observatory 693 Votes: 10
    In ESA's Flyeye telescope, a single mirror of 1 m equivalent aperture collects the light from the entire 6.7° x 6.7° field of view and feeds a pyramid-shaped beam splitter with 16 facets. The complete field of view is then imaged by 16 separate cameras that contain 16 detectors. The tubes contain a set of secondary lenses. 14 February 2017 Flyeye telescope 244 Votes: 1
    CFHT 2003 precovery image of 2016 WJ1: the asteroid appears a faint spot between two bright stars 10 January 2017 Asteroid 2016 WJ1 393 Votes: 7
    The 1.5 m-diameter telescope of the Catalina Sky Survey, seen in twilight 10 January 2017 Looking up 265 Votes: 0
    A dramatic panorama shows a colourful, shimmering auroral curtain reflected in a placid Icelandic lake on 18 March 2015 near Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon in southern Iceland 15 November 2016 Aurora over Icelandic lake 482 Votes: 4
    As part of the global effort to hunt out risky celestial objects such as asteroids and comets, ESA is developing an automated 'Fly-eye' telescope for nightly NEO sky surveys 27 October 2016 Fly-eye telescope 779 Votes: 5
    ESA astronaut Tim Peake took this photo from inside the ISS Cupola in April 2016, showing a 7 mm-diameter circular chip gouged out by the impact from a tiny piece of space debris 12 May 2016 Impact chip 68203 Votes: 225
    The OASI Observatory team (Brazil) led by Daniela Lazzaro and with Sergio Silva obtained astounding images following ExoMars launch 17 March 2016 Spotted in space 13600 Votes: 134
    On 11 October 2015, just 12 hours after its discovery, WT1190F was first confirmed by ESA’s NEO Coordination Centre using observations from the Agency’s Optical Ground Station, Tenerife, Spain 28 October 2015 ESA observatory 1340 Votes: 18
    On 11 October, just 12 hours after its discovery, the object was first confirmed by ESA’s NEO Coordination Centre using observations from the Agency’s Optical Ground Station, Tenerife, Spain. 27 October 2015 Halloween asteroid 3682 Votes: 30

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