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US scientists seek to prevent another meteor explosion

NASA and the Air Force are working together to develop plans to prepare for future meteor strikes like the one in Russia earlier this month.
Russian asteroid highlights astronomers' challenge: predicting such space objects

Astronomers have cataloged about 95 percent of the space objects wider than half a mile – those that could destroy civilization. But they have found less than 1 percent of the objects 100 feet across or larger, a class that includes the asteroid that flitted past Earth on Friday.
Huge asteroid won't strike Earth on Friday. But what about the next time?

There's no chance that the 150-foot-wide asteroid 2012 DA14 will strike our planet, but it's only a matter of time before a large space rock does, say scientists.
Space community mourns Sally Ride (+video)

Following the death of astronaut Sally Ride everyone from Buzz Aldrin to Barack Obama has offered a tribute to the first American woman in space.
Private space telescope to hunt for big Earthbound asteroids (+video)

The nonprofit B612 foundation is expected to launch its Sentinel space telescope in 2017 to detect big asteroids several decades before they could hit Earth.
Sentinel astroid-hunting private telescope could find half a million space rocks

That may sound ambitious, especially since only about 10,000 such asteroids have been catalogued to date.
First-ever deep-space telescope to hunt dangerous asteroids (+video)

The private space telescope forms the heart of Project Sentinel, a deep-space mission being unveiled today in Mountain View, Calif., by a nonprofit group of scientists and explorers that advocates better space rock monitoring.
School-bus-sized asteroid to buzz Earth Friday, nearer than moon

While the near-Earth asteroid won't hit Earth, it may offer seasoned amateur astronomers a great show — if they are in the right viewing location and have good equipment.