[AZ-Observing] Re: Almost put on impact alert

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:02:10 -0700, Paul Dickson wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:21:23 -0700, Steve Coe wrote:
> 
> > I am struck by the fact that so little seems to continually be done in this 
> > field.  With a very modest input of funds we could probably do a much 
> > better job of monitoring the assortment of rocks that orbit the Sun with 
> > us.  But NO!
> 
> I recall that there was a conference in Pasadena last week about what to
> do.  It was in a report from TechLive on TechTV, so a search on techtv.com
> might turn up some details.

The conference was the 2004 Planetary Defense Conference.  Here are two
reports from it (found via news.google.com):

    http://www.astronomy.com/Content/Dynamic/Articles/000/000/001/671etcbs.asp
    http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=12010

        -Paul

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