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...University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, Timothy Spahr, 26, peered through a stereoscopic microscope, shook his head and looked again. In the combined image of two telescopic photos he had shot 30 minutes apart a few nights earlier, a bright dot with a small tail stood out starkly against the background of fixed stars. "I was extremely excited, heart pounding and all that stuff," says Spahr, a graduate student from the University of Florida who was surveying the skies for undiscovered asteroids. He immediately shot and developed a second set of photos, and was shocked to see that in just...
...feelings went from disbelief to excitement to downright fear," says Spahr's survey partner, Carl Hergenrother, 23, an Arizona undergraduate who verified the find with a 90-in. telescope atop nearby Kitt Peak. "It was scary, because there was the possibility that we were confirming the demise of some city somewhere, or some state or small country...
...decade, given the necessary funding. But budgets are tight, congressional support is lacking, and NASA has opted to continue only its relatively modest $1 million annual support for three independent groups with telescopes specifically dedicated to NEO hunting. These teams are headed by Tom Gehrels at the University of Arizona, Helin at J.P.L. and Shoemaker at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona...
Senator John McCain of Arizona, who was investigated over savings-and-loan abuses as a member of the Keating Five, says the pressure is even greater for a career military man like Boorda. "For some of us who served in the military, the thing we prize more than anything else is our honor and our reputation. People shouldn't be interested in destroying a reputation built up over all those years of dedicated and loyal service because of one mistake...
...when the telescope is completed, it will be one of the most useful astronomical instruments in the world, according to Kirshner. He says the first mirror is cast and ready to be ground and polished at the University of Arizona...