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行星猎者的冒险

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卡丽·纽金特 |

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• February 2016

TED伙伴卡丽·纽金特是一位行星猎人。她寻找并分类研究最古老，数量最多的太空邻居，是小行星的科学家团队的一员。为什么要注意这些小行星呢？在这场简短和充满真相的演讲中，纽金特解释了小行星所产生的巨大影响是怎样形成我们的地球，以及为什么及时发现它们便意味着拯救地球上的生命。

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TED伙伴卡丽·纽金特是一位行星猎人。她寻找并分类研究最古老，数量最多的太空邻居，是小行星的科学家团队的一员。为什么要注意这些小行星呢？在这场简短和充满真相的演讲中，纽金特解释了小行星所产生的巨大影响是怎样形成我们的地球，以及为什么及时发现它们便意味着拯救地球上的生命。

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Carrie Nugent is part of a team that uses NASA's NEOWISE telescope to search the skies for and catalog asteroids.

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Asteroid Hunters

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Carrie Nugent - *Asteroid Hunters*

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Petition your congressional representatives to support NASA. More than 95 percent of near-Earth asteroids have been discovered by NASA-funded surveys. If you feel strongly about this and are a US citizen, you can reach out to your representatives and express your support for NASA to continue the search.