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The Science, Space and Technology Committee<\/strong> of the U.S. House of Representatives<\/strong> is holding a hearing on March 19 named “Threats from Space: A Review of U.S. Government Efforts to Track and Mitigate Asteroids and Meteors, Part 1” to discuss the kind of threat that space rocks pose and how to protect the Earth against this threat with the help of agencies like NASA and the Air Force. Tags: Science, Space and Technology Committe, near-Earth asteroids, NASA Publication: Space.com Publication Date: 03\/19\/2013 Artist\u2019s illustration of recent Russian space rock explosion and same day close flyby of an asteroid Image credit: Texas A&M The Science, Space and Technology Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives is holding a hearing on March 19 named “Threats from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThis is the first of a series of meetings called as a result of Earth\u2019s most recent encounters with asteroids. An example of an occurrence was on Feb. 15 when a meteor exploded over Russia on the same day that a large asteroid flew close by Earth.
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\nToday\u2019s hearing will focus on the basics of tracking a meteor or asteroid, hoping to answer many questions in regards to the tools, technology, frequency and accuracy of detecting and tracking of near-Earth objects. Three experts will take questions during the hearing: the White House\u2019s Office of Science and Technology Director John Holdren, U.S. Air Force Space Command current commander Gen. William Shelton, and NASA administrator Charles Bolden.
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\nA second congressional hearing is scheduled aiming to focus on international efforts to monitor the sky for asteroids and meteors, but issues in detecting near-Earth objects are being called to attention as well.
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