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Cerritos College Astronomy students were featured on the NBC Channel 4 News on Nov. 8.
Students from Astronomy professor Thad Szabo’s class looked at an asteroid known as “Asteroid 2005 YU53,” which is 200,000 miles away from earth.
Szabo said “This [asteroid] won’t hit us, as we can learn important lessons from this, to avoid getting hit in the future.
“By possibly directing a neon engine into a future asteroid that poses a threat and move it out into space; the more time we have to react, the better we are.”
The asteroid takes 200 years to orbit around Earth.
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