Image: Dan Durda/Sentinel Mission

Lord Martin Rees, UK Astronomer Royal, says it’s time to ramp up efforts to find the many smaller near-Earth objects that could unleash destruction on our planet and identifies the work of Dr. Ed Lu and the Sentinel Mission to detect and deflect Earth-bound asteroids.

Read the Article: “Know thy enemy: the million space rocks we must find.”

New Scientist: (December 3, 2014)