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Australian Official: Search for Deadly Asteroids 'Fruitless, Unnecessary'
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 12:50 pm ET
19 March 2002
An Australian government official dismissed a plea by scientists that his
country spend money searching for potentially threatening asteroids that could
only be spotted from the Southern Hemisphere, calling it a "fruitless,
unnecessary, self-indulgent exercise."
On the Australian television program 60 Minutes, science minister Peter
McGauran said a
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 12:50 pm ET
19 March 2002
An Australian government official dismissed a plea by scientists that his
country spend money searching for potentially threatening asteroids that could
only be spotted from the Southern Hemisphere, calling it a "fruitless,
unnecessary, self-indulgent exercise."
On the Australian television program 60 Minutes, science minister Peter
McGauran said a