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UN Plans Asteroid Response Framework

chrb writes "The Association of Space Explorers, a non-profit group of people who have completed at least one Earth orbit in space, has presented a report to the United Nations titled Asteroid Threats: A Call for Global Response. The UN will now meet in February to discuss the issue and try to define a global political framework for dealing with asteroid-based threats to the Earth."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/03/2347227&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/12/03/2347227"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/03/2347227&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/u27YV_O2HdZ1m9tK2i0EeW-ffZ0/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/u27YV_O2HdZ1m9tK2i0EeW-ffZ0/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/a38GUNE16Rs" height="1" width="1"/>