Astronomer Posing Outside Palomar Observatory

Eugene Shoemaker photographs the sky to search for meteors that could collide with the earth. Countries like Russia and the USA have the technology to identify meteors should they land within their borders, however he worries that other countries without the detection technology would think that they had been hit with a nuclear bomb, and would react militarily, thus sparking a deadly conflict with another country. (Photo by Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)
Eugene Shoemaker photographs the sky to search for meteors that could collide with the earth. Countries like Russia and the USA have the technology to identify meteors should they land within their borders, however he worries that other countries without the detection technology would think that they had been hit with a nuclear bomb, and would react militarily, thus sparking a deadly conflict with another country. (Photo by Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)
Astronomer Posing Outside Palomar Observatory
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February 11, 1985
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