Better NEO Target Survey Needed, NASA Says

NEO SHORTAGE: NASA researchers warn the number of known large asteroids, or near-Earth objects (NEOs), may be insufficient to find a suitable candidate for a human visit, and that a space-based NEO telescope survey (NTS) should be considered to discover more targets. Jay Jenkins, study chair of NASA...

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