The United States must do more to safeguard the Earth against destruction by an asteroid than merely prepping nuclear missiles, a new report has found.
The 134-page report, released Friday by the National Academy of Sciences, states that the $4 million spent by the United States to identify all potentially dangerous asteroids near Earth is not enough to do the job mandated by Congress in 2005. Full story:
http://www.space.com/news/space-rock-earth-threat-100122.html
* Meteorite Crashes Through Virginia Doctor's Office...
- NASA: Giant Ribbon at the Edge of the Solar System: Mystery Solved?... Discovery News: Mystery Object Behaves Both Like a Comet and Asteroid... NASA's Wise Eye Gets Ready To Survey the Whole Sky... NASA: Dawn now permanently in asteroid belt:
http://cristiannegureanu.blogspot.com/2010/01/meteorite-crashes-through-virginia.html
