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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Avoiding Armageddon - how Australia could one day help save the planet

Avoiding Armageddon

Source: The Daily Telegraph

IT'S the next giant leap for mankind - landing an astronaut on an asteroid up to 10,000,000km from Earth.

And Australia is being considered for an intricate role in the ambitious NASA mission that could one day save the planet.

Among the objectives is to find ways to prevent a collision between Earth and a massive asteroid, such as the one blamed for wiping out the dinosaurs.

It would be the first time humans have explored space beyond the Moon and a testing ground for future missions to Mars and beyond.

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