Logan
10-08-2011, 03:02 AM
'The world is a safer place today after it was announced that 93 percent of all near-Earth asteroids larger than a kilometre have been identified, and none of the them pose a risk to Earth.
The findings are the result of NEOWISE: a survey with NASA’s orbiting Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) with the aim of drawing conclusions about the asteroid population in Earth’s vicinity. “It’s like a population census, where you poll a small group of people to draw conclusions about the entire country,” says Amy Mainzer who led the NEOWISE study from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “The results substantially reduce the risk of an impact without warning.'
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The findings are the result of NEOWISE: a survey with NASA’s orbiting Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) with the aim of drawing conclusions about the asteroid population in Earth’s vicinity. “It’s like a population census, where you poll a small group of people to draw conclusions about the entire country,” says Amy Mainzer who led the NEOWISE study from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “The results substantially reduce the risk of an impact without warning.'
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http://www.astronomynow.com/news/n1110/01asteroids/