<blockquote>'A new NASA organization dedicated to protecting Earth from dangerous asteroids has hit the ground running.
In early January, NASA announced the establishment of a
Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO), which will synchronize U.S. efforts to deal with threatening near-Earth objects (NEOs) and will supervise all NASA-funded projects to find and characterize asteroids and comets that visit Earth's neighborhood.'
- Leonard David,
NASA's New Planetary Defense Office Gets to Work Protecting Earth, January 29, 2016</blockquote>
<blockquote>'NASA has formalized its ongoing program for detecting and tracking near-Earth objects (NEOs) as the
Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO). The office remains within NASA’s Planetary Science Division, in the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The office will be responsible for supervision of all NASA-funded projects to find and characterize asteroids and comets that pass near Earth’s orbit around the sun. It will also take a leading role in coordinating interagency and intergovernmental efforts in response to any potential impact threats.'
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NASA Office to Coordinate Asteroid Detection, Hazard Mitigation, January 7, 2016</blockquote>
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