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Detection: = = · u  USDD satellites have detected 136 explosions in the upper atmosphere period 1975 to 1992 · These impacts were caused by meteoroids · The meteoroids are assumed to be fragments of comets or asteroids · The fragments self-destruct as they hit Earth's upper atmosphere at high speeds · Meteoroids impact in the atmosphere at velocities between 15 and 20
 * If with assistance of space guard, detection of NEOs could become much easier to do.

SPACE GUARD The term Space guard loosely refers to a number of efforts to discover and study near-Earth objects (NEO). Arthur C. Clarke coined the term in his novel Rendezvous with Rama where SPACEGUARD was the name of an early warning system created following a catastrophic asteroid impact. ...

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