Asteroid Threat : Defending Our Planet from Deadly Near-earth Objects (9781616149147) (34 page)

Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Shoemaker mission,
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near-Earth asteroids (NEAs),
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Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking Program (NEAT),
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Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre (of the ESA),
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Near-Earth Object Dynamic Site (NEODyS),
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Near-Earth Object Program Office,
128

Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them before They Find Us
(Yeomans),
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,
129

Near-Earth Objects: The United Nations International Conference
(Remo),
129

near-Earth-objects conference.
See
International Conference on Near-Earth Objects

NEOShield,
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NEOWISE,
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Nettles, Bonnie,
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Newitz, Annalee,
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Newsweek
,
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Newton, Isaac,
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New York Times
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Nici, Lt. Col. Rosario,
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Niebuhr, Reinhold, on the Apollo program,
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Nikolayeva, Valentina,
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Nikulin, Maksim Y.,
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Niven, Larry,
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Nixon, Richard M.,
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Nordling, Germany,
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40

Noviya Izvestia
(newspaper),
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Nuth, Joseph A., III,
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Nye, Bill,
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Obama, Barak, and the space agenda,
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asteroid-capture mission,
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Odyssey
,
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O'Neill, Gerard K.,
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30

Oort Cloud,
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Open Skies program,
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Operation Overcast,
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Operation Paperclip,
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Orpheus asteroid,
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Ostro, Steven J.,
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22
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80
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O'Sullivan, Michael,
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15

Palazzo, Rep. Steven,
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Palomar Observatory,
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Panel on Asteroid Threat Mitigation,
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Pan-STARRS,
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,
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89

Pasachoff, Jay M.,
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Pavlovsky, Gleb,
26

Peekskill explosion,
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Penfield, Glen,
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,
98

People's Liberation Army satellite blinding incident,
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Perminov, Anatoly,
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Perozzi, Ettore,
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Pike, John,
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Pilcher, Carl,
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82

Pioneer exploration program,
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,
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planetary defense

estimated cost,
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32

origin of term,
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white paper on,
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31

planetary-defense conferences,
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recommendations,
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Planetary Defense Foundation,
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Planetary Society,
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Pliny the Elder,
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Pluto,
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Popova, Anna V.,
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Popovkin, Vladimir,
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Pournelle, Jerry,
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,
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,
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Powers, Francis Gary,
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Pravda
(newspaper),
23

Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship
(report),
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Preparing for Planetary Defense
(report),
83

Puchkov, Vladimir,
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Rampino, Michael R.,
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RAND Corp.,
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Ranger space project,
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Reagan, Ronald,
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reconnaissance satellites,
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Red Army,
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Redstone Arsenal,
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Rendezvous with Rama
(Clarke),
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,
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105
,
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Report of the NEO Survey Working Group
(report),
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Rickman, Hans,
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Ride, Sally,
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Rogozin, Dmitri,
23
,
145

Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets
(Steel),
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Roskosmos (Russian space agency),
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,
58
,
198
,
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Roswell Report, The
(McAndrew),
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R-7 rocket,
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Russian Academy of Sciences,
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Russian jokes,
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Russian scientists,
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Russian-US NEO cooperation, proposed,
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46

Sagan, Carl,
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,
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,
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Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de,
33
,
136

Sandia National Laboratories,
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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
(Newitz),
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Schachter, Oscar,
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Schiller Institute conference,
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Schmitt, Harrison H.,
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Schroon Lake, NY, explosion,
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Schweickart, Russell L. “Rusty,”
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Science
,
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Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI),
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SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence),
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Secure World Foundation,
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See, Thomas Jefferson Jackson,
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Sentinel deep-space telescope,
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Shapiro, Robert,
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Shepard, Alan,
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Shibanov, Ilya,
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Shoemaker, Carolyn,
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Shoemaker, Eugene M.,
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Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet,
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42
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Shubin, Oleg,
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Shustov, Boris,
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Sky at Night
(BBC series),
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Sky Is Not the Limit, The
(Tyson),
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,
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Skylab,
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Sky Walking: An Astronaut's Memoir
(Jones),
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Slovic, Paul,
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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,
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Smyth, Charles Piazzi,
125

Sokolov, Alexei,
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Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr,
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Sorensen, Theodore C.,
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Southwest Research Institute,
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Soviet space triumphs and JFK,
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Space Command, US Air Force,
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Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX),
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Spaceguard

Japan Spaceguard Association,
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,
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origin of name,
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Spaceguard Foundation,
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Spaceguard Report,
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Spaceguard Survey,
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Spaceguard UK,
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International Spaceguard Information Centre,
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Space Mission Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG),
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,
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space shuttle,
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Space Situational Awareness Program (of the ESA),
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Space Surveillance Network,
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Spacewatch,
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SpaceWorks Engineering,
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SpaceWorks Enterprises,
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Sputnik
,
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Stalin, Joseph,
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Star of Bethlehem
fresco (Giotto),
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Starry Night
painting (Van Gogh),
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Steel, Duncan,
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Strategic Defense Initiative (a.k.a. Star Wars),
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Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics (of the US Congress),
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Sudbury crater,
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Sun Tzu,
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Surayev, Maksim,
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Survey and Detection Panel (of the NRC),
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Surveyor space program,
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Taylor, Theodore,
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Teller, Edward,
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Tereshkova, Valentina,
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Time
(magazine),
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Titov, Gherman,
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Tomorrowland (Disneyland park),
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Tonry, John,
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Torino Impact Hazard Scale,
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Toynbee, Arnold J.,
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Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin E.,
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Tunguska impact,
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Tyson, Neil deGrasse,
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UFOs,
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United Nations (UN),
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International Conference on Near-Earth Objects, April 1995,
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Missions Authorization and Oversight Group,
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University of Arizona,
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,
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University of Chicago,
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University of Hawaii,
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Urey, Harold C.,
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US Air Force,
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US Naval Observatory,
44

US Space Command.
See
Space Command, US Air Force

U-2 spy flights,
14

Van Doren, Mark,
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Vanguard Program,
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Vernadsky Institute,
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Verne, Jules,
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Viking mission,
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von Braun, Wernher,
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51
,
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Voo Doo
(magazine),
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Vostok
spacecraft,
157
,
160

Voyager exploration program,
127
,
170

Voyager 2's Grand Tour,
65

Voyager 2 spacecraft,
65
,
74

Vredefort crater,
68

V-2 missile,
149

War of the Worlds, The
(Wells),
183

Washington Post
,
156

Wasser, Alan,
235

Webb, William Larkin,
45

Welles, Orson, and Martian-invasion radio broadcast,
184

Wells, H. G.,
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,
183

Wessen, Randii,
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When Worlds Collide
(film),
42
,
109

Whipple, Fred L.,
58
,
152

White, Edward H.,
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White Sands Missile Range,
140

Whitman, Walt,
125

Wickramasinghe, Nalin C.,
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34

Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE),
74
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191

Wilcox, Brian,
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Wilford, John Noble,
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Willamette meteorite,
68

Willis, Bruce,
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Wilson, E. O.,
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Wolfe, Gary K.,
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Wolfe Creek Crater,
131

Wood, Lowell,
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Worden, Gen. Simon P.,
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Wylie, Philip Gordon,
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X-15 rocket,
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X-1 rocket,
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Yamamoto, Judith T.,
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