ASTEROID THREAT DEBATE
Tue, 12 Nov 1996 12:40:51 -0600
Source: Reuters
Asteroid Threat Debated - Space scientists are meeting in Britain
today to debate whether the Earth is in imminent danger of being
hit by an asteroid -- and whether anything can be done about it.
Many of the scientists and amateur astronomers attending the
meeting argue that thousands of large objects pass near the Earth
every decade, and little is being done to track them. "People like
to imagine that there are battalions of astronomers scouring the
skies. There aren't," said Australian astronomer Duncan Steel.
"We really need to get a better idea of what we are doing, what
we can do," said Richard Tremaine Smith of the British National
Space Center.
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