Thursday, August 13, 2009

Discouraging news

Earth could be blindsided by asteroids, panel warns - space - 12 August 2009 - New Scientist
Existing sky surveys miss many asteroids smaller than 1 kilometre across, leaving the door open to damaging impacts on Earth with little or no warning, a panel of scientists reports. Doing better will require devoting more powerful telescopes to asteroid hunting, but no one has committed the funds needed to do so, it says.

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