Experts Push for a NASA Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft (SPACE.com)
6:52am GMT, Wednesday, 22 December 2010
SPACE.com - NASA needs
an asteroid-hunting spacecraft to finally get serious about the
potential
threat of nearby space rocks that could slam into Earth, experts say.
Lately,
support is building to finally develop such a mission for both safety
and
scientific reasons.
Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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