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PLANETARY SCIENCE: The Small Ones Can Kill You, Too
Richard A. Kerr
A NASA panel wants the government to spend more to quantify the risk from near-Earth objects--mostly asteroids--too small to wipe out civilization but big enough to destroy a major city or trigger a deadly tidal wave.