Bytemarks Café: Pan-STARRS

By Burt Lum

Published April 20, 2016 at 9:35 AM HST

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We'll take a view into space through the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System or Pan-STARRS. We'll learn about one of its major goals, to discover and characterize Earth-approaching objects, both asteroids and comets, that might pose a danger to our planet.

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