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What Spaceguard did

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  • Alan Harris

    (Alan Harris is a senior research scientist with the Space Science Institute, 4603 Orange Knoll Avenue, La Canada, California 91011-3364, USA.)

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A survey of large objects near Earth has shown that there is little risk of a cataclysmic impact in the next century. Alan Harris asks if such cataloguing efforts should continue.

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  • Alan Harris, 2008. "What Spaceguard did," Nature, Nature, vol. 453(7199), pages 1178-1179, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:453:y:2008:i:7199:d:10.1038_4531178a
    DOI: 10.1038/4531178a
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    1. Arnaud Mignan & Patricia Grossi & Robert Muir-Wood, 2011. "Risk assessment of Tunguska-type airbursts," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 56(3), pages 869-880, March.
    2. Seth D. Baum, 2018. "Uncertain human consequences in asteroid risk analysis and the global catastrophe threshold," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 94(2), pages 759-775, November.
    3. Seth D. Baum, 2019. "Risk–Risk Tradeoff Analysis of Nuclear Explosives for Asteroid Deflection," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 39(11), pages 2427-2442, November.

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