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AmyStrange

(7,989 posts) Thu Jun 20, 2013, 10:30 PM Jun 2013

NASA Needs Your Help Finding Killer Asteroids

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NASA Needs Your Help Finding Killer Asteroids
Andrew Fazekas for National Geographic
Published June 20, 2013

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/06/130620-nasa-asteroids-space-science-crowdsourcing/

PICTURE: The asteroid Vesta, one of the largest in the solar system.
Image courtesy NASA/Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

"There are a million asteroids that could destroy cities. What do we do?

"How do you track down a million potentially hazardous asteroids that each have the capability to wipe out an entire city? That's what NASA needs to do, which is why it has started a new initiative called the Asteroid Grand Challenge... "

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