Fear of the Unknown.

• Autores: Lee Billings
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 314, Nº. 1, 2016, págs. 12-15
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article reports on the U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) and other space agencies that are developing ways to deflect and redirect asteroids as they approach. Topics discussed include a congressionally mandated inventory of near-Earth object (NEOs) completed by NASA in 2010, comments from Lindley Johnson of NASA, regarding the delay in achieving the 2020 goal to catalogue NEOs and fight for funding of the proposed infrared space telescope called NEOCam, for same.