US updates asteroid-defense strategy | Space

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The United States' National Science and Technology Council has updated the country's plan for dealing with potentially dangerous asteroids.

Earlier this month, the Council published a 38-page document laying out six goals for federal agencies aimed at strengthening our ability to detect, track and develop technologies to deflect hazardous near-Earth objects (NEOs), and increasing international preparedness for such events. 

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