Asteroid Collision in 2036 - UN to help?

"You have to act when things look like they are going to happen - if you wait until you know for certain, it's too late," Dr Russell Schweickart, an Apollo 9 astronaut, told a conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco.

"We believe there needs to be a decision process spelled out and adopted by the United Nations."

Let's hope they pull their finger out, in case a colission happens prior to 2036