NASA 'can't cope' with killer asteroids
NASA is supposed to seek out almost all the asteroids that threaten Earth but lacks the money to do the job, a federal report says.
That is because even though Congress assigned the space agency this mission four years ago, it never gave NASA money to build the necessary telescopes, says the report released on Wednesday by the National Academy of Sciences.
<a href="http://www.watoday.com.au/breaking-news-world/nasa-cant-cope-with-killer-asteroids-20090812-ei5g.html?page=-1?>Australian Newspaper report
Just last month, astronomers were surprised when an object of unknown size and origin bashed into Jupiter and created an Earth-sized bruise that still is spreading. Jupiter gets slammed more often than Earth because of its immense gravity, enormous size and location.</blockquote
(So who'se biassed, EP?)