Wednesday, August 12, 2009

My Way News - Report: NASA can't keep up with killer asteroids: "The space rocks astronomers are keeping a closest eye on are a 430-foot diameter object that has a 1-in-3,000 chance of hitting Earth in 2048 and a much-talked about asteroid, Apophis, which is twice that size and has a one-in-43,000 chance of hitting in 2036, 2037 or 2069."

Comment: According to this report, NASA has been required by Congress to track near-Earth objects but they have not given NASA the money to do it. Let's hope that any sufficiently large enough object heading our way will be very obvious to the sky watchers.

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