Asteroid news: Astronomer snaps a ‘potentially hazardous’ space rock on Earth approach

This year alone, 88 new NEOs have been spotted and last year astronomers found 2,436 of the space rocks.

In it’s January NEO newsletter, ESA said: “As it had been anticipated already last month, 2019 has been a record-breaking year in NEA discoveries, with an increase of nearly 30 percent with respect to 2018.”

According to ESA, there are 21,655 known near-Earth asteroid and 109 near-Earth comets.

The space agency also counted 2,370 NEO discoveries since January 1, 2019.