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When it comes to protecting ourselves from asteroids, we remain poorly prepared. Big leaps have been made – we know where the planet-killing asteroids are and even how to deflect them thanks to DART. We have expanded the number of known objects a lot but there are too many that are discovered too late, in many cases by groups of amateurs. Among these talented and dedicated people, there is the team behind the Northolt Branch Observatories who have been responsible over the years for the discovery of many near-Earth objects conducting tens of thousands of observations. The story of a...