NASA JPL Solar System Ambassador Greg Redfern explains the difficulties imposed on NASA to fund continued monitoring of Near Earth Objects (NEO) for the purpose of predicting collisions with the Earth.
It is feared that without this capability there would not be sufficient time to prevent or prepare for a disastrous impact that would affect the environment over a widespread area or worst case, an extinction level event such as the one attributed to the demise of the dinosaurs.
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