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  • Grad student's research faces worst-case asteroid scenario

    Feb 21, 2022 10:45 am by Debra Levey LarsonStudent Experiences
    This illustration shows asteroid 2020 QG's trajectory bending during its close approach to Earth. The asteroid is the closest known non-impacting asteroid ever detected. The asteroid passed by 1,830 miles above the southern Indian Ocean on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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    Andrew Koehler recently won an award from the International Academy of Astronautics to further his work on a research project to use swarm intelligence algorithms to look at steroid impact probability. 

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