Panel Urges New Space Telescope
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By Jefferson Morris
Although the U.S. won’t be able to meet the congressionally mandated goal of locating and cataloging most near-Earth objects 140 meters across or larger by 2020, it could come close to that deadline if a new space-based observatory is dedicated to the task in concert with a suitable ground-based telescope, according to a National Academies panel....
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