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Former astronaut Ed Lu, now with the B612 Foundation<\/a>, will be on the CBS 60 Minutes<\/a>\u00a0news program this evening to talk about near earth asteroids and their threat to earth :\u00a0Dr. Ed Lu on 60 MINUTES \u00a0– B612 Foundation<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[ Update<\/strong>: See complete segment in the post above<\/a>.]<\/p>\n

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Former astronaut Ed Lu, now with the B612 Foundation, will be on the CBS 60 Minutes\u00a0news program this evening to talk about near earth asteroids and their threat to earth :\u00a0Dr. Ed Lu on 60 MINUTES \u00a0– B612 Foundation: [ Update: See complete segment in the post above.] Here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-spacecasts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1fN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3191,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3191","url_meta":{"origin":4823,"position":0},"title":"Astronauts sell space memorabilia to support asteroid observatory","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 4, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The B612 Foundation is raising money for their asteroid finding space observatory by selling memorabilia from Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart and Shuttle\/ISS astronaut Ed Lu: B612 Foundation items in Auction Cause Charity Auctions store on eBay! 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