Hunt for Potentially Deadly Asteroids Underfunded, Panel Says

Identification should be funded. Mitigation should not. The bang for
the buck is much, much higher for identification.

Ron

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07/11/02 12:02 PM
Please respond to neo-owner

Panel Says

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/asteroid_panel_020710.html

Hunt for Potentially Deadly Asteroids Underfunded, Panel Says
By Jason Bates
space.com
July 10, 2002

WASHINGTON D.C. - The U.S. government should invest more money in tracking
near-Earth objects that might threaten Earth, said members of a space
roundtable on Capitol Hill Wednesday.

While the Air Force is not tasked with tracking near-Earth objects, U.S.
Air
Force Brig. Gen. S. Pete Worden said such a mission would be appropriate
for
the service and an assignment could occur "in the next few years," he
said.

A warning center could be run by the Air Force and coordinate with
non-military groups that currently track objects, Worden said during the
roundtable, which was titled "The Asteroid Threat: Identification and
Mitigation Strategies" and sponsored by an organization called ProSpace.

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