Planetoid Defense: NASA to Formulate Planetary Protection Plan
Asteroid Defense: NASA to Formulate Planetary Protection Plan
http://www.space.com/news/060628_neo_workshop.html
NASA has begun a fact-finding appraisal of how best to detect, track, catalogue
and characterize near-Earth asteroids and comets—and what can be done to deflect
an object found on course to strike our planet.
