Talk:Near-Earth object
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Um, I changed "30% of the sky that has never been surveyed" to "30% of the sky that is not currently surveyed." For one, it's wrong. The southern sky has been surveyed. A NEO survey operated in Australia for some time before funding was cut by the government. And for two, it's a bit alarmist and misleading. Asteroids move. An asteroid that's in the Southern sky now will be in the Northern sky at some time in the future. If we miss our chance to see it this year, we'll have other chances in the future. Not looking at 30% of the sky doesn't mean we're missing 30% of the asteroids, it just means it takes us longer to find them.