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Radio 4,1 min

Asteroids threat: "Eventually our number will be up"

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Asteroid hunter and former NASA astronaut Edward Lu says there are one million near-earth asteroids large enough to destroy a major city. Less than one per cent have been found and mapped. Lu says deflecting an asteroid is relatively easy if you know it's coming.

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