Daily Doc: The Global War on Astroids

Humankind might not go the way of the dinosaurs after all. The Aerospace Organization is currently hosting a conference here in Washington to assess our ability to protect the planet from near-Earth objects (NEOs), such as asteroids, that possess the capability of causing mass devastation if they collide with the Earth. The full agenda is here (pdf).

Among orders of business: figuring out how better to detect potentially destructive objects ahead of time, how to destroy them, and what lawmakers need to do to develop the capability to do so.

Etc.: Eyes on the Skies, on USNews.com