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Loading contentNear-Earth asteroids large enough and close enough to warrant tracking, under the objective PHA criterion — a monitoring category, not a prediction of impact.
One of the most elongated known asteroids, a near-Earth Apollo object well characterised by radar.
An elongated near-Earth asteroid in a chaotic, tumbling rotation, flown past by China's Chang'e 2 in 2012; it crosses both Earth's and Mars's orbits.
A near-Earth asteroid famous for its very close but non-impacting approach to Earth on 13 April 2029; impacts for the foreseeable future have been ruled out by radar and tracking.
A small, carbon-rich near-Earth asteroid sampled by OSIRIS-REx, whose material was returned to Earth in 2023.
A carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid visited by Japan's Hayabusa2, which returned surface and subsurface samples to Earth in 2020.