Mason scientists help NASA prepare for potential killer asteroids
(WorldNews Environment)

This artist concept illustrates the first known Earth Trojan asteroid, discovered by NEOWISE, the asteroid-hunting portion of NASA WISE mission. The asteroid is shown in gray and its extreme orbit is shown in green. Objects are not drawn to scale. PHoto illustration courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA. A George Mason University researcher stands ready to help coordinate the world`s response should a planet-killing asteroid ever threaten Earth. `The possibility is still very low,` said Chaowei Phil Yang, the director of Mason`s Center of Intelligent Spatial Computing, `but we...