A Western University researcher recently led the study of an effort by professionals and citizen scientists to track an asteroid through space to its safe arrival on Earth – the first such “comprehensive study”, officials said.
The asteroid, called 2023 CX1, never posed a threat to our planet. But tracking it could help with future planetary defence efforts, Western officials said in a statement. The research was led by Western adjunct professor Auriane Egal and published the Nature Astronomy journal on Wednesday (Sept. 17) .
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