CORRECTED: U.N. urged to take action on asteroid threat
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(Corrects to make clear Apollo 9 orbited the earth, paragraph four)
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2029, April 13 an Asteroid named 2004 MNH of around 400 meters is predicted to pass near Earth, according to a recent discovery. The Asteroid orbits the sun once every 324 days.
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p2pnet.net OT News:- There&#39;s a 1-in-45 chance that Asteroid 2004 MN4, discovered in June and spotted again last week, will collide with the Earth on April 13, 2029.
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PPARC -- British astronomers are providing a vital component to the world-wide effort of identifying and monitoring rogue asteroids and comets. From this month, the UK Astrometry and Photometry Programme (UKAPP) for Near-Earth Objects, based at Queens University, Belfast, will track Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) and feed their crucial information into the international programme of protecting the Earth from any future impact by a comet or asteroid...
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A mountain-sized asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth at 9:35 am EDT (7.05 pm IST) tomorrow, reports NASA. Although asteroid 4179 Toutatis will come no closer than four times the distance between
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An unmanned &quot;tractor spacecraft&quot; could eventually be used to drag an asteroid off course before it slams into Earth with catastrophic consequences, experts have said.
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There have been a couple of movies recently depicting the impending collision of an asteroid with Earth. It might not be sci-fi anymore.
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UNITED NATIONS A high-level panel is calling for changes in the United Nations to better handle global threats in the 21st century.
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Additional observations have ruled out the chance that a recently discovered asteroid, believed to be about 1,300 feet long, could hit Earth in 2029, NASA scientists said.
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Friday the 13th has an ominous meaning for some people. Friday, April 13, 2029 might have an ominious meaning for everyone. That&#39;s when a 1,300-foot asteroid known as 2004 MN4 could hit the Earth: NASA has
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Our position is: United Nations must be more open about mistakes made in oil-for-food scandal. When the United Nations in 1996 began allowing Iraq to sell oil to raise money to buy food and medicine, the program
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U.S. helicopters stepped up aid flights in tsunami-hit Indonesia Tuesday as U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan urged rich nations to spend more on preventing natural disasters before the next one hits.
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Muhammad el-Baradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), sent a letter to the current UN Security Council President Sir Emyr Jones Parry last week expressing concern about the whereabouts of equipment from dismantled sites that
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New penalties against Sudan &#151; check. More dollars to fight AIDS in Africa &#151; check. A respected internationalist to lead the World Bank &#151; check. Friendly words about tackling global warming &#151; check.
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The world's nations, generous with their aid since the Asian tsunami catastrophe, must take action to be prepared for and prevent such natural events from becoming mass killers, the U.N. emergency relief chief said Monday.
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A recently discovered 1,300 feet long asteroid -- 2004 MN4 --has a slim chance of hitting Earth in the year 2029, according to the statements of NASA.
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Description: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan upset the Bush Administration earlier this year when he called the Iraq War illegal and the attack on Fallujah dangerous.