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- The Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA has marked the 1,000th Near-Earth Asteroid named ‘2021 PJ1’as it passed Earth.
- The asteroid was not a threat to Earth but it was a historic event.
- The Near-Earth Asteroids and comets are collectively referred to Near-Earth Objects (NEOs).
- The first radar observation of the asteroid ‘1566 lcarus’ was conducted in 1968.
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