NASA keeping watch on asteroid, but doesn't favor tracking mission
NASA is keeping close watch on asteroid 2004 MN4, which Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schweickart thinks has a remote chance of hitting the Earth in 2036, but agency officials don't feel at this point that placing a transponder on the asteroid for better tracking would be worth the expense. The 1,000...
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