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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