7 Jan 2016 - NASA Office to Coordinate Asteroid Detection, Hazard Mitigation

[NASA]

7 Jan 2016 - NASA Office to Coordinate Asteroid Detection, Hazard Mitigation
NASA has formalized its ongoing program for detecting and tracking near-Earth objects.


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The recently passed federal budget for fiscal year 2016 includes $50 million for NEO observations and planetary defense, representing a more than ten-fold increase since the beginning of the current administration.

Meteor strikes:

The only phenomenon we KNOW nearly ends all life on this planet & it only gets 50 mil in funding?

Priorities are confused here methinks...