Recently however, funding of projects such as the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research and Near Earth Asteroid Tracking projects has meant that most comets are now discovered by automated systems, long before it is possible for amateurs to see them.

Most ancient cultures have had conceptions of a flat Earth, including Greece until the classical period, the Bronze Age and Iron Age civilizations of the Near East until the Hellenistic period, India until the Gupta period ( early centuries AD ) and China until the 17th century.

Near the end of the decade, he made a cameo appearance in Welles's Touch of Evil ( 1958 ) and a starring role in the film adaptation of Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon ( also 1958 ).

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Near Earth most of the ship's 1500 passengers are killed by meteors, and only two men and six women land in a lifeboat and become the ancestors of humanity.

* In Die Erde is nah: die Marsexpedition ( 1970 ), by Ludek Pesek, published in English as The Earth is Near ( 1973 ), a crew of twenty men undertake the first manned mission to Mars, and after landing in the wrong area due to computer malfunction and / or human error, have to cope with vicious sand storms, and a long trek undertaken in vehicles to their original intended area of exploration.

* NASA Space Telescope Finds Fewer Asteroids Near Earth ( 09. 29. 11 )

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* Near instant point-to-point teleportation is possible with transfer booths ( on Earth ) and stepping disks ( on the Puppeteer homeworld ); on Earth, people's sense of place and global position has been lost due to instantaneous travel ; cities and cultures have blended together.

* June 15 – Near Earth Asteroid 2002 MN misses the planet by, about 1 / 3 the distance to the moon.

The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous-Shoemaker ( NEAR Shoemaker ), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene M. Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit over a period of a year.

* Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous

A possibility exists that Apophis could go through a 400 m wide " keyhole " on this pass which would put it on a collision course with the Earth in 2036 .< ref > SkyandTelescope. com-News from Sky & Telescope-Asteroid 2004 MN < sub > 4 </ sub >: A Really Near Miss!

The craft was controlled from the European Space Agency ESOC facilities in Darmstadt ( then West Germany ) initially in Geostationary Transfer Orbit ( GTO ) then in the Near Earth Phase ( NEP ) before the longer Cruise Phase through to the encounter.

He had many epithets which alluded to different aspects of his deity: Titlacauan (" We are his Slaves "), Ipalnemoani (" He by whom we live "), Necoc Yaotl (" Enemy of Both Sides "), Tloque Nahuaque (" Lord of the Near and the Nigh ") and Yohualli Èecatl (" Night, Wind "), Ome acatl (" Two Reed "), Ilhuicahua Tlalticpaque (" Possessor of the Sky and Earth ").

Near the surface of the Earth, its magnetic field can be closely approximated by the field of a magnetic dipole positioned at the center of the Earth and tilted at an angle of about with respect to the rotational axis of the Earth.

Astronomers have been conducting surveys to locate the NEOs, many ( as of early 2007 ) funded by NASA's Near Earth Object ( NEO ) program office as part of their Spaceguard program.

This data set is a digital archive created from optical images taken over a 5-year period by the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking ( NEAT ) program using two 1-m telescopes located on Maui.

* NEO News: Spaceguard Survey of Near Earth Asteroids David Morrison Tuesday, August 1, 2000 ( Discovery statistics by 2000 )

* Near Earth Network

* Near realtime composite of satellite image of the Earth by Intellicast

* P. E. R. M. A. N. E. N. T., Project to Employ Resources from the Moon and Asteroids Near Earth in Near Term.

Water from lunar sources, Near Earth Asteroids or Martian moons is thought to be relatively cheap and simple to extract, and gives adequate performance for many manufacturing and material shipping purposes.

During the time there, he was involved in searching for Near Earth Asteroids.

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Near the end of that episode, with the mission completed, he explained to his comrades before leaving the camp for a date: " Women are like a war ; there's always another one coming along.

Near the end of the episode, they agree to get married after the war is over.

Near the end of each episode, there was usually a sketch of some sort, followed by each of the guests doing a brief monologue on a particular topic that was discussed earlier in the episode.

Near the end of the production run of the show's fifth season ( 2001 ), Parker and Stone contemplated having an episode in which Kyle was killed off.

Near the beginning of each episode of The New Yankee Workshop, Abram recites a standard monologue about safety.

Near the end of the episode, a Protestant minister holds an enthusiastic interfaith religious service and invited human and alien alike ; as the choir sings " No Hiding Place Down Here ", the song coincides with images of Refa's capture and subsequent death at the hands of the Narns.

Near the end of the 5th season, in the episode " There's Only One Sydney Bristow " ( also the series ' 100th episode ), Tippin is kidnapped by Anna Espinosa and used as bait for Sydney.

Near the end of the episode a very different Buffy arrives, friendless and fighting alone, and when she confronts the Master she falls quickly under his hypnotic powers and is killed when he snaps her neck ( again fulfilling the prophecy that in their fight, she will die ).

" Near the beginning of each MXC episode, he is seen addressing the contestants as a group, asking whether some broad assertion relating to one of the topics in the episode is true.

Near the end of the episode, they are taken to the roof of their bar and held at gunpoint.

Near the end of episode 37 a pink and blue Gundam Mobile Suit can be seen hanging out with the Buff Clan fleet.

Near the close of the episode, Kinoy inserted a few moments in which little Davy Hutchinson asks, " We've got to run after Ma now, huh?

Near the end of the episode, Fat Tony drives to the Simpsons house, while shots of Springfield are shown on the way.

Near Bedrock lies Granitetown, given in one episode as the one-time childhood hometown of Barney Rubble and Fred's boss, Mr. Slate.

Near the end of the episode, Terry himself is the victim of an injury after being hit with a mail cart, but he returns to work swiftly in order to keep everyone in line once again.

Near the end of the episode, they hear a gunshot and hug each other in fright, before they declare their love for each other and kiss passionately.

" Rawhide " episode " Incident Near Gloomy River ( 1961 ) and again " Rawhide " episode " Inside Man " ( 1962 ).

* Near the beginning of the first episode, Ace briefly appears wearing the Fourth Doctor's trademark scarf, and Mel's top seen in Paradise Towers.

Near the end of the episode, Madden and Summerall provide the following analysis:

Near the beginning of the episode, Homer takes part in, and wins, KBBL's drinking contest.