ASE Calls for Global Cooperation to Confront Asteroid Threats “At a public event today at New York’s American Museum of Natural History, the Association of Space Explorers (ASE), a professional […]
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Defending the Earth from Asteroids (Webcast)
Defending the Earth from Asteroids (Webcast) Watch live today at 11 am EDT – Neil deGrasse Tyson, Hayden Planetarium – Thomas Jones, former NASA astronaut – Russell Schweickart, former NASA […]
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Asteroid Un-conference Hosted by B612 Foundation Today
From B612 Foundation: “Since the government got shut down and NASA canceled the remainder of the asteroid workshop in Houston today and tomorrow, B612 decided to just go ahead and […]
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Taking Asteroid Threats Seriously
The Save-the-World Foundation, Science (Subscription required for full access) “In the new economy of commercial ventures into Earth’s orbit, the B612 Foundation is aiming for much farther–into deep space–propelled by […]
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Paper: Easily Retrievable Asteroids Discovered
Easily Retrievable Objects among the NEO Population, arXiv.org “Asteroids and comets are of strategic importance for science in an effort to understand the formation, evolution and composition of the Solar […]
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10,000 Near-Earth Objects and Counting
Ten Thousandth Near-Earth Object Unearthed in Space [Watch], NASA JPL “More than 10,000 asteroids and comets that can pass near Earth have now been discovered. The 10,000th near-Earth object, asteroid […]
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Asteroids and Budgets
NASA Budget Priority: Asteroid Defense, Wall Street Journal “Once again, NASA likely faces a stiff fight over its desire to ramp up funding to $820 million annually to help subsidize […]
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House Hearing on Asteroid Threats
Private Companies can Play Key Role in Tracking Asteroids “Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas): “Most troubling to me is the fact that of the up to 20,000 asteroids that could be […]
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Asteroid Threat Double Header in Congress
19 Mar: House Hearing: Threats from Space: A Review of U.S. Government Efforts to Track and Mitigate Asteroids and Meteors, Part 1 – Prepared Statement By Air Force Space Command […]