How a Tiny Asteroid Strike May Save Earthlings From City-Killing Space Rocks - News Azi

Movies that imagine an asteroid or comet catastrophically colliding with Earth always feature a key scene: a solitary astronomer spots the errant space chunk hurtling toward us, prompting panic and a growing feeling of existential dread as the resear

That Scout continues to demonstrate its worth is welcome. But it will be of little comfort if this program, or NASAs other near-Earth object monitoring systems, identifies a much larger asteroid head… [+1931 chars]

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