Who's responsible for protecting the planet?
Think NASA has a plan for diverting an asteroid that threatens Earth? Think again.
Published:
March 24, 2006
Popular disaster movies like Armageddon and Deep Impact, along with sometimes wildly hyped media reports of asteroid-impact risks, might lead you to believe NASA has a plan to deal with any potentially threatening asteroid.
Nothing could be further from the truth. |
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