House passes bill to encourage amateur tracking of asteroids
The House of Representatives passed a bill Oct. 1 that would establish awards to encourage amateur astronomers to discover and track potentially dangerous asteroids in near-Earth orbits. The Charles "Pete" Conrad Astronomy Awards Act (H.R. 5303) authorizes NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe to...
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