Asteroid dataset

“There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for them — NEOs: near Earth objects. And our biggest goal is to try to catalogue them, so we know in advance if one is going to put us at risk.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a gigantic asteroid hit can destroy the entire planet. If we prepare now, we better our odds of survival. The dinosaurs never knew what hit them."-Michio Kaku

An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. The vast majority of known asteroids orbit within the main asteroid belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, or are co-orbital with Jupiter (the Jupiter trojans). However, other orbital families exist with significant populations, including the near-Earth objects.There is increasing interest in identifying asteroids whose orbits cross Earth's, and that could, given enough time, collide with Earth.The dataset is obatined from Jet Propulsion Laboratory of California Institute of Technology which is an organization under NASA. In this Dataset all kinds of Data related to Asteroid is included. This Dataset is publicly available in their website

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