Posted on 02/26/2004 10:20:05 PM PST by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:13:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The day before the president addressed NASA in January, outlining a new direction in manned space flight, astronomers detected a large asteroid that appeared to be headed straight toward Earth. Further studies showed that the Near Earth Object (NEO) would miss by a wide margin, as it eventually did. Who knew?
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