Category: Near Earth Objects

Yesterday at 1:18 pm Pacific I - and presumably a lot of reporters - received an email advising of something coming up from an outfit called the B612 Foundation. It said that a week from tomorrow it shall host a press teleconference in San Francisco to describe the asteroid-seeking telescope it plans to launch on private money into solar orbit and, it hopes, spot any large rocks on orbits that threaten to hit the Earth at a foreseeable date. Rusty Schweikert is involved. He's been fixed on this problem as one that needs fixing for many years.

Oh, well, that's interesting and my mind raced on. For one thing, I've no customer for such an article, but more important even...