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Planetary Society Grant Winner Discovers… – The Planetary Society
The kilometer-wide object won’t hit Earth, but would cause global-scale devastation if it did.

In 1998, the U.S. Congress directed NASA to initiate SpaceGuard, an
effort to find and track 90% of all near-Earth objects 1 kilometer and
larger by 2008. In 2005, Congress expanded NASAs NEO mandate to find
and track at least 90% of all NEOs 140 meters or larger by 2020. But
since the agency was never given enough funding
to fulfill this much more difficult task, only 40% of these objects
have been found to date. At current detection rates, it will be another
30 years before NASA meets t…
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