When NASA worth tracking down dangerous asteroids for … – Afrik.com

NASA has released a report stating that his hunt for potentially dangerous asteroids to the planet Earth is not efficient enough.

The Earth is threatened? This is what one might expect after the report published Monday, September 15, in which the Inspector General of NASA reported that the hunt for potentially dangerous asteroids to planet Earth, conducted by the agency, is not effective enough.

The Inspector General of NASA believes that the efforts of the American space agency to hunt down dangerous meteors and develop protection systems are clearly inadequate. noted that since 2005, NASA’s mission was to detect asteroids 140 meters in diameter and greater, posing a potential hazard to the Earth. This, through a request from Congress, which had requested a NASA program called “Near-Earth Objects” (NEO).

The program stipulated that the American agency is required to identify 90% potentially hazardous asteroids to Earth in the end of 2020 unless the report says since the request of Congress in 2005, “NASA does not have a structured program to manage a conglomerate of research and uncoordinated with scattered activities inadequate supervision and no criteria for measuring progress “

According to the Inspector General, reassures that most asteroids disintegrate in the atmosphere before reaching the ground, since 1998 the agency has listed 10% of the estimated total. A target of 90% far from being achieved.