Europe sets next phase in asteroid deflection project

The European Space Agency (ESA) has said that it had shortlisted three European consortia to submit proposals for its Don Quijote project, which seeks to deflect any future asteroid on a collision course with Earth.The teams are respectively led by Alcatel Alenia Space, Qinetiq of Britain and EADS Astrium, each of which has long experience in European space projects, ESA said in a press release on Monday.

And a massive rock out there right now - incoming - due to miss the earth at less distance than the moon (or am I wrong??!)
 
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