Sentry-II, NASA's newest asteroid monitoring system, has gone live and is now assessing the impact risk associated with thousands of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs). Sentry-II takes over from the first-generation impact risk assessment software, Sentry, initially deployed in 2002.
It was tasked with monitoring the entire NEA catalog to assess possibilities of future impact with Earth over the next 100 plus years. While the system was cutting-edge for twenty years ago, it had a few limitations that
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