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Small Solar System body with an orbit that can bring it close to Earth
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4197 Morpheus
Near-Earth asteroid
1866 Sisyphus
Stony asteroid
1865 Cerberus
Asteroid
Comet Swift–Tuttle
Halley-type comet and parent body of the Perseid meteors
103P/Hartley
Periodic comet
67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
Periodic contact binary comet
99942 Apophis
Potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid
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Near-Earth asteroid
objects in a near-Earth orbit without the tail or coma of a comet
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Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
American astronomical survey for identifying and tracking near-Earth objects
NEOSurvey 1: initial results from the Warm Spitzer Exploration Science Survey of Near-Earth Object Properties
scientific article published in Astronomical Journal
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A near-Earth object (NEO) is any small Solar System body orbiting the Sun whose closest approach to the Sun (perihelion) is less than 1.3 times the Earth–Sun distance (astronomical unit, AU). This definition applies to the object's orbit around the Sun, rather than its current position, thus an object with such an orbit is considered an NEO even...

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Small Solar System body
planet-crossing minor planets
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