It sounds like this is going to require a multinational effort but the Russians are doing all of the planning. That's not a good thing. It looks like some people are more concerned with their own personal prestige than ensuring a successful mission.

 

Given the recent failures in Russian missile testing, I've got my money on the asteroid.

 

Possibly the reason of inviting brighter minds from other nations to the party? :shifty:

 

Even though the chances that this asteroid will hit the Earth are remote we will eventually will be hit by one and this would be a good opportunity to establish a procedure to avert such a disaster in the future.

I read that there are approx 6000 celestial objects that are headed to our vicinity but we have only been able to track 1000 of them.