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# The Hunt for Space Rocks
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/jpl-and-the-space-age/episode/the-hunt-for-space-rocks-rm6tye/
- Published: 2025-08-05T01:46:06.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-21T07:35:30.000Z
- Description: We need to find asteroids and comets before they find us.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: JPL and the Space Age, Season 1, Episode 16, #ZZZ_Episode_561c87fc-be2b-4899-be8b-3611f5d19c04, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_1fa9cd81-09f7-41c4-9fac-1f45fe7b748d, #v1.16

“The Hunt for Space Rocks” chronicles JPLs pioneering work to understand asteroids and comets as part of NASA’s larger effort to protect our planet from cosmic marauders. From JPL’s effort to mount a mission to study the most famous comet of all – Halley’s comet – to the lab’s current role in planetary defense with its Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS).