What we're looking for

PHO is not just a soup, it's also a Potentially Hazardous Object. Now, I'm not talking about Heidi Montag standing in the middle of a busy city intersection wearing nothing but a bowtie (which despite the alterations that made her Barbie-esque and less humanesque, would still force the attentions of male drives hitherward and towardherward) -- in this case, PHO means an asteroid capable of a) coming close to Earth, and b) in the worst case, hitting Earth.

(As has happened before: update on the pristine Egyptian crater, complete with picture of a fragment.)

Anyhoo, a new telescope system has spied it's first PHO, which is what it's looking for. Glad to see the system is functional. Now we can hope that it finds something that's going to hit us in time for us to make it not hit us.