NASA Launches Asteroid Contest
NASA launched a set of "Asteroid Data Hunter" developer contests in a quest to enlist scientists and coders to help catalog small(ish) asteroids that could be hazardous to Earth.
NASA has a handle on 98 percent of near-Earth asteroids at least .6 miles in size, but it now wants to get its arms around smaller ones that still could pose a threat.
The asteroid believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs was at least six miles wide.
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