🪐📡 Aarti Holla-Maini leads the #UN team responsible for alerting the world to potential #asteroid impacts. This #interactive feature explains how the 2024 YR4 asteroid #discovery triggered the first global notification from the Office for Outer Space Affairs.

The agency manages a hotline for satellite operators to prevent collisions in Earth's orbit providing a detailed view of the systems that protect the planet from threats originating in #space.

👉 https://www.theguardian.com/science/ng-interactive/2026/mar/30/asteroid-warning-earth-un-office-for-outer-space-affairs

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