U.N. Panel To Call for Global NEO Tracking Network

摘要

The United Nations committee responsible for space affairs in June will send to October's U.N. General Assembly a resolution calling for an international network of ground-based telescopes to track and analyze potentially dangerous asteroids and other near-Earth objects (NEOs). The recommendations of the U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, scheduled to meet June 12-21 in Vienna, follow a multiyear study by a group of experts and calls for no new financing by the United Nations.