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Asteroid
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Asteroid systems Limited is strongly dedicated to providing comprehensive and reliable customer support as the cornerstone to its customer-focused commitment. Asteroid understands that customer support begins with the development of quality, best-of-breed software products through direct interaction with customers, as well as extensive industry research and feedback. Energy market participants must deal with changing market dynamics on a daily basis, demanding products that meet the business needs of tomorrow's ever-changing environment.
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Asteroids are rocky or metallic objects, most of which orbit the Sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. A few asteroids approach the Sun more closely. None of the asteroids have atmospheres. Asteroids are ... known as planetoids or minor planets.
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![[Disasteroid]](http://retrieverimages.lycos.com/images/a/s/t/asteroid/i/002.gif)
While their work may fall on opposite ends of the ratings spectrum, the producers of almost-snuff and "Asteroid" are aiming for the same thing. Disaster coverage on CNN and other news channels gets huge ratings. People will and have sat transfixed for hours by frantic reports of catastrophe (remember how many times you saw the Challenger blowing up?), and the networks' sweeps programmers want a piece of that action. Almost-snuff may just be a more "honest" way than "Asteroid" to exploit viewers' morbid curiosity. But that doesn't make it any less putrid. Try watching one of these brush-with-death things.
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Asteroid 1950DA ("Cosmic Enemy #1") will approach close to the Earth on March 16, 2880. A preliminary analysis shows two possible scenarios. One trajectory misses the Earth by tens of millions of kilometers, while the other has an impact probability of 1 in 300. The energy released by a collision with an object the size of 1950 DA would cause major effects on the climate and biosphere which would be devastating to human civilization. The discovery of the potential impact has heightened interest in asteroid deflection strategies.
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