Keep watching the skies!

Posted on behalf of Janet Fang The $4 million that the United States spends each year searching for near-Earth objects (NEOs) is not enough to meet a congressional mandate, according to a National Research Council (NRC) report released last week. In it the NRC outlined ways to detect more asteroids and comets that are potential threats should they cross into our orbit. Under a 2005 act, NASA must discover 90 percent of these NEOs with diameters of 140 meters or greater by 2020, and in 2008, Congress asked the NRC to figure out the best approach. Last year, an NRC … Read more
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