This makes them impossible to catalogue and in theory they could reach Earth only 80 days after being 'created'. Spooked by the growing body of evidence, the British government is proposing spending around 25m on a program, nicknamed SpaceGuard, to protect the UK from comet and asteroid damage. In charge of this noble effort is Lord Sainsbury of Turville, Britain's science minister, who wants to set up a chain of telescopes to catalogue and monitor threatening rocks. In addition to managing the detection and cataloguing of Near-Earth objects, the NEO Program office is responsible for facilitating communications between the astronomical community and the public should any potentially hazardous objects be discovered. A documentary by the British BBC called Earth in the Cosmic Firing Line.
Asteroids hitting Earth and taking out major cities is the stuff of Hollywood sci-fi.
But recent research has revealed that Earth is hit much more often than we thought and could be struck again in our lifetime. About blooming time China worships Marvel Comics. Post your comments here. I would rather have our government spending money on this, than wasting it on stealth bombers. It's about time the politicians woke up to the danger of this threat.