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New MIT Asteroid Detection System Could Be Our Planet’s Best Defense Yet

Summary by The Daily Galaxy
MIT researchers have unveiled a cutting-edge method to detect and track smaller asteroids that could potentially disrupt Earth’s space-based infrastructure. Published in the Research Notes of the AAS, the study highlights the potential dangers of decameter-scale asteroids, which, while smaller than the destructive “dinosaur-killer” asteroids, pose a serious risk to the satellites and communication systems that modern society depends on. This new…
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The Daily Galaxy broke the news in on Friday, March 13, 2026.
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