clsage Posted October 12, 2010 Report Share Posted October 12, 2010 Since it has uses as a plot hook in a variety of genres I'll post this here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20101011/sc_space/forgetbigasteroidsitsthesmallerrocksthatsneakinandblowup From the article: "...."We talk about the big ones all the time, and we're getting rid of the threat for those," said Bill Ailor, director of the Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies. "But the small ones are going to be a continuing threat. And the challenge is what do we do about that," said Ailor, also a leading planetary defense expert at The Aerospace Corp. in El Segundo, Calif. �"We might not see them in time." Similar in view was Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "We're doing very well with detecting the large ones. But we've got a long way to go for the small ones," Yeomans added......" -Carl- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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