NASA Formalizes Efforts To Protect Earth From Asteroids | TechCrunch - 0 views
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John Lemke on 16 Jan 16They admit that they failed to detect the most significant one to strike in the history of the program.
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the Chelyabinsk asteroid is the exception, not the rule, and with improved technologies NASA has been able to detect smaller asteroids over the years. NASA notes that “more than 13,500 near-Earth objects of all sizes have been discovered to date – more than 95 percent of them since NASA-funded surveys began in 1998.
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