News about Spaceguard

Actually, Spaceguard is an imaginary international organization created by Arthur C. Clarke in the novel Rendesvous with Rama.  It's job was to protect Earth from potential global existence threats posed by hazardous asteroids.

But there is international discussion going on about how to protect the Earth from potential global existence threats posed by hazardous asteroids.


NASA and ESA will team up to deflect Earth-bound asteroids

That's a short blurb at Yahoo.   Here's the longer article at Engadget.


By the way, there is a Spaceguard Centre in the UK.  It could use a bit more funding.  Because the possibility is real, even though the odds against it happening anytime soon are high.