Published on January 30, 2017
Astronomers discovered more than 15,000 asteroids which could potentially pose a threat to Earth, according to a Friday release.
Global asteroid detection programs found more than 15,146 near-Earth objects of all sizes with 1,532 new near-Earth objects being identified this year alone, according to International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planets Center. These newly discovered near-Earth objects are part of a much larger population of more than 700,000 known asteroids in our Solar System.
