A group that monitors Near Earth Asteroids is urging NASA to develop a strategy for dealing with a recendy discovered asteroid that could strike Earth in 2036. The U.S. space agency is being prodded by a group of astronauts, scientists and other technical specialists who are uneasy about the current lack of action to protect the Earth from potential impacts with near Earth objects (NEOs). The object was found last year through the efforts of NASA's Spaceguard Survey. In 1998 NASA formally initiated the Spaceguard Survey by adopting the objective of finding 90 percent of the near Earth asteroids larger than one kilometer in diameter before the end of 2008.
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