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NASA Panel Calls for Asteroid Defense Office (SPACE.com)

Spacecraft Operations Manager Andrea Accomazzo controls the Rosetta asteroid mission at the Space Operations Centre of ESA (European Space Agency) in Darmstadt, Germany, on Saturday, July 10, 2010. ESA's Rosetta comet-chaser is on the way to its main target, the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, arriving in 2014. On this Saturday it will fly past the asteroid Lutetia, observing and sending data and pictures. (AP Photo/dapd/Mario Vedder)SPACE.com - BOULDER, Colo. — Protecting Earth from menacing space rocks that could impact our planet should be designated a top-level NASA strategic goal, according to an agency task force.  To achieve that goal, NASA should establish a Planetary Defense Coordination Office to oversee the effort, the task force said.


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