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Life Arts 2/18/2007 at 8:35 PM EST

U.N. urged to take action on asteroid threat

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An asteroid may come uncomfortably close to Earth in 2036 and the United Nations should assume responsibility for a space mission to deflect it, a group of astronauts, engineers and scientists said on Saturday.

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