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Vigilant amateur asteroid hunters keep watch for menacing space rocks

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That's what has allowed Stephens, who lives about 100 miles from his group's 13-telescope observatory, the Center for Solar System Studies , to conduct astronomy from home, glancing at his computer screens every half-hour or so. As a college student living at home, he used his dad's shop tools to build a telescope. Credit: Gary Hug.

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