EISRI-Summit 2011

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London School of Economics

A national drive to introduce superfast broadband coverage across most of the UK could stumble over a funding gap of more than £1 billion identified in a new report from LSE.

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Elisa Maria Alessi, Ariadna Farrés, Arturo Vieiro, Carles Simó and Àngel Jorba
University of Barcelona

Although most asteroids move in a region between Mars and Jupiter, some move close to the Earth’s orbit. Hence, a collision with our planet cannot be ruled out. As a matter of fact, observing the impact craters on the surface of the Moon, Mars or even Mercury, it is easy to see that an asteroid encounter is not as rare as we might think. How frequent are such...

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