The Asteroid Patrol
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Like the objects he studies, Gene has made an impact. For his pioneering "research on Earth-approaching asteroids and comets" and other accomplishments, he was awarded the National Medal of Science last year. "Nobody believed Chicken Little when he said the sky was falling," Shoemaker says. "But occasionally the sky does fall, and with horrendous effects."
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