Panel Recommends New Space Telescope For Asteroid Survey

A new space-based observatory could help NASA almost meet a congressional deadline for locating and cataloging most near-Earth objects (NEOs) down to 140 meters (460 ft.) across, according to a committee of the National Academies of Science. To meet the 2020 goal for tracking objects that would have...

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