Schweickart's group will host a series of meetings to provide the UN with a 'decision process' for assessing and acting on the hazard posed by Apophis and other near-Earth asteroids (NEAs). A draft document ready for consideration by the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space is expected by 2009. It would be entertaining to see the clowns at the UN if there were a real observable threat. For the record, they would be complaining the the United States isn't doing enough to counter the threat.
Under the radar, discerning UN clowns would be phoning NASA and the Joint Chiefs asking nicely what could be done.