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But in a different way this time – Here’s another cataclysm that wiped out much of the life on earth in the past: multiple impacts from comets and asteroids sent up dust that blocked out sunlight, causing a major food shortage. Could this happen today? NASA is trying to make sure it doesn’t by spotting asteroids BEFORE they strike. But it might not take a space rock to cause famine toda–climate change might do it instead, n HALF of the world, anyway.

Astronomers all over the world now are trying to make sure this never happens again. NASA admits they haven’t always done this: in BBC News, Laurence Peter quotes Don Yeomans as saying, "It’s getting much more predictable. Before 1998 we hadn’t found many and didn’t do much follow-up."
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It didn’t happen in November, but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen in the future.

A new UN report states: “Faced with such a threat, we are far from helpless. Astronomers today can detect a high proportion of Near Earth Objects and predict potential collisions with the Earth. Evacuation and mitigation plans can be prepared to cope with an unavoidable impact. For the first time in our planet’s 4.5-billion-year history, the technical capacities exist to prevent such cosmic collisions with Earth. The keys to a successful outcome in all cases are preparation, planning, and timely decision-making.”
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According to Richard Boylan it will…or was this just one of those baseless predictions that seem to be everywhere lately?

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A small, newly-discovered asteroid named 2008 TC3 is approaching Earth and chances are good that it will hit. Measuring only a few meters across, the space rock poses no threat to people or structures on the ground, but it should create a spectacular fireball, releasing about a kiloton of energy as it disintegrates and explodes in the high atmosphere above northern Sudan. However, it should be noted that the asteroid has just been discovered. Had it beenthirty meters across instead of three, it would have been acatastrophe, and one with very little warning.

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