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Bigger, Better Telescopes Needed to Find Near-Earth Asteroids 
Wired | by Alexis Madrigal | Fri, Jan 22
If we’re going to protect the Earth from an asteroid, we need to find the dangerous ones whizzing about in the emptiness of space.
Lindley Johnson, program executive at NASA’s Near Earth Object Program, which wrote the NASA report agreed.
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