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 ).

* Near Earth Object

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.

* Near Earth Asteroids Astronomy Cast episode # 29, includes full transcript.

* 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 realtime composite of satellite image of the Earth by Intellicast

* Ground Network, the old name for Near Earth Network, a network of NASA ground stations to support spaceflight

GSFC also operates two spaceflight tracking and data acquisition networks ( the Space Network and the Near Earth Network ), develops and maintains advanced space and Earth science data information systems, and develops satellite systems for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ).

This series has been broadcast in 36 countries, among them Germany ( Super RTL ), Belgium ( RTL TVI ), Canada ( Télé-Quebec ), Estonia ( ETV ), Spain ( Antena 3, Disney Channel, Toon Disney and TV3 ), Finland ( MTV3 ), Cyprus ( CyBC ), Greece ( Alter Channel ), Ireland ( RTÉ ), Italy ( Italia 1 ), Portugal ( Prisvideo ), Switzerland ( TSR ), Russia ( THT Network ), Hungary ( Minimax ), Slovenia ( RTV ), Morocco ( 2M Soreheads ), Turkey ( Yumurcak TV ), Mexico ( TV Azteca ), Brazil ( Rede Globo ), Venezuela ( RCTV ), Indonesia ( RCTI and B Channel ), Malaysia ( TV3 and TV9 ), the Africa Pansat ( CFI ), and Latin America ( MVS ), the Near East and Middle East ( TV5 ), ( E-Junior ), Vietnam ( HTV7 ), Thailand ( United Broadcasting Corporation ), South Korea ( EBS ) Iceland ( Uppeldi EHF ), and South Africa ( SABC ).

* Duck Dodgers: Near the end of the first part of the second season finale of this 2003-2005 Cartoon Network series, Dodgers uses a hoverboard to quickly traverse a junk yard to get to his ship.

Near the end of the 2004 series, it was announced he would be leaving Australian Idol ( and Network Ten ) to take up a job at the Seven Network to broaden his interests as a presenter and producer.

* Explore Ur with Google Earth on Global Heritage Network

* Audio of Broadcast of " The Green Hills of Earth " from the NBC Radio Program X Minus One from OTR Network.

* Explore Cyrene with Google Earth on Global Heritage Network

No instrumentation was carried specifically for scientific experiments by Surveyor 1, but considerable scientific data was collected by its TV camera and then returned to the Earth via the Deep Space Network in 1966-67.

* Earth Repair Network Advocates plantation forestry.

In 1999, Hinn appeared on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, claiming that God had given him a vision predicting the resurrection of thousands of dead people after watching the network — laying out a scenario of people placing their dead loved ones ' hands on TV screens tuned into the station — and suggesting that TBN would be " an extension of Heaven to Earth ".

Now Earth Day is coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network, and is celebrated in more than 175 countries every year.

It now is observed in 175 countries, and coordinated by the nonprofit Earth Day Network, according to whom Earth Day is now " the largest secular holiday in the world, celebrated by more than a half billion people every year.

Following the 25th Anniversary in 1995, the coordination baton was handed to Earth Day Network.

Earth Day Network was founded by Denis Hayes and the organizers of the first Earth Day in 1970 and by other national organizers, including Pam Lippe, to promote environmental activism and year-round progressive action, domestically and internationally.

Earth Day Network members include NGOs, quasi-governmental agencies, local governments, activists, and others.

Earth Day Network members focus on environmental education ; local, national, and global policies ; public environmental campaigns ; and organizing national and local earth day events to promote activism and environmental protection.

In observance of the 40th anniversary of the April 22 Earth Day, Earth Day Network created multiple global initiatives, ranging from a Global Day of Conversation with mayors worldwide, focusing on bringing green investment and building a green economy ; Athletes for the Earth Campaign that brings Olympic, professional, and every day athletes ' voices to help promote a solution to climate change ; a Billion Acts of Green Campaign which will aggregate the millions of environmental service commitments that individuals and organizations around the world make each year ; to Artist for the Earth, a campaign the involves hundreds of arts institutions and artists worldwide to create environmental awareness.

* Earth Day Network – Coordinating worldwide events for Earth Day.

* Earth Day Event Calendar at the EnviroLink Network

In 2011 the Nine Network announced a new " Home of Comedy " line-up with comedy shows such as Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory and other American sitcoms along with the launch of a live comedy show Ben Elton Live From Planet Earth which was cancelled after only three episodes due to low ratings.

), while others are of religious beliefs, most notably the Unitarian Christian Association and the Unitarian Earth Spirit Network.