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A rare asteroid flyby will happen soon, but NASA may be left on the sidelines
“Nature is handing us an incredibly rare experiment.”…
Other choices, including dragging dual space probes out of storage, the Janus spacecraft, and other concepts that were submitted to NASA a year ago as part of a call for ideas, have already been rejected or simply left on the table. In authorization bills dating back to 2005, Congress began mandating that NASA "detect, track, catalog, and characterize" near-Earth objects that were 140 meters in diameter or larger. A comprehensive plan to address planetary defense must include two elements, said Ed Lu, a former NASA astronaut who co-founded the B612 Foundation to protect Earth from asteroid impacts.
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