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View Code? Open in Web Editor NEWProject Submitted for Udacity's Intermediate Python Nanodegree using Python. This project involves using a dataset obtained from NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) close approaches of NEOs to Earth. A close approach occurs when an NEO's orbit path brings it near Earth - although, "near" in astronomical terms can be quite far in human-scale units, such as kilometers. The project should inspect the properties of the near-Earth objects in the data set and query the data set of close approaches to Earth using any combination of the following filters: Occurs on a given date, on or after a given start date, on or before a given end date, approaches Earth at a distance of at least (or at most) X astrononical units, approaches Earth at a relative velocity of at least (or at most) Y kilometers per second, has a diameter that is at least as large as (or at least as small as) Z kilometers and is marked by NASA as potentially hazardous (or not).