Asteroid Hunters Part-Blinded by the Military

07-27-2010, 11:39 AM

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Asteroid Hunters Part-Blinded by the Military

-- New Scientist, June 28, 2010The mammoth asteroid-hunting Pan-STARRS telescope is impaired by US military restrictions that keep it from scanning sections of the sky where sensitive military spacecraft might be operating.

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