US Congress Approves Search for Earth-Threatening Asteroids |
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Written by spacetravel.org
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Monday, 26 December 2005 21:58 |
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The US Congress has approved a NASA-led search for Earth-threatening asteroids. It is part of a bill awaiting the signature of President George W. Bush.
The bill authorises NASA operations for 2007 or 2008. It would give NASA a year to devise a plan to catalogue 90 per cent of potentially Earth-threatening asteroids, some of them as small as 140 metres, within 15 years. The bill does not provide any money for this; however, survey telescopes are already being developed.
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