The Head of space environment at the British National Space Agency told The Scotsman yesterday that the US Space Guard project will have identified almost all the most dangerous “Near Earth Objects” by 2008 and scientists had already demonstrated they were able to alter their course.
Mr Tremayne-Smith said humans should avoid extinction as a result of a massive asteroid hitting the Earth, thought to be the reason why the dinosaurs died out.
Earlier this year NASA’s Deep Impact probe collided with a comet and successfully changed its direction, click here for my post on that.
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Link from Benny Pieser, thanks.
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.