[meteorite-list] Pete Conrad Award for Near-Earth Objects?

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:54:01 2004
Message-ID: <200202061740.JAA15632_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0202/06congress/

Congressmen show support for O'Keefe, NASA budget
BY JEFF FOUST
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
February 6, 2002

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This year will be the final year Rohrabacher will serve as chairman of the
space subcommittee because of term limit rules for committee chairs.
Rohrabacher plans to use his final year in part to push through legislation
he plans to introduce in the near future to establish an award named after
the late astronaut Pete Conrad. The award would go each year to the
astronomer who discovers the largest near-Earth object, an incentive for
more people to look for objects that could pose a hazard to the Earth. "If
we got 10,000 young people looking into the sky," he said, "even if they
don't find anything it is still a good thing."

[snip]

Full story here:

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0202/06congress/
Received on Wed 06 Feb 2002 12:40:44 PM PST