Scientists have charted about 500 meteors near the Earth's orbit and estimate that 100 of those are potentially dangerous.

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NASA's slice of the pie includes a plan that would improve detection of near-Earth asteroids, send a solar-powered robot ship (like the NASA concept above) to capture one of the space rocks and tow it back to a stable orbit near Earth, where researchers could study it up close.

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