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Latest Press Release
March 17, 2010: Planetary Society Offers Funding to International Asteroid-Tracking Community

Project Updates
Current status of the projects of past Shoemaker NEO Grant winners

Images
Images of grant winners and NEOs.

Testimonials
from NEO researchers and grant recipients

Previous Press Releases

April 27, 2009: Planetary Society Awards NEO Trackers. Gene Shoemaker Near Earth Object Grants Given to Three Observers

March 7, 2007: The Planetary Society Awards Asteroid Trackers

July 26, 2006:  Attention Astronomers: Here's Your Chance to Save the World!

August 17, 2005:  Planetary Society Funds Search for Potentially Dangerous Near Earth Objects

July 14, 2004: Planetary Society Marks 10th Anniversary of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's Plummet into Jupiter with Funding for New NEO Research

July 31, 2002: The Planetary Society Funds Sky Watchers

February 8, 2001: The Planetary Society Assists Search for Near Earth Objects