Where was it?
Planetary safety
Pentagon to deny scientists access to meteors data
Published 18 June 2009
There was an unofficial arrangement between the Pentagon and top U.S. scientists: the Pentagon’s missile-launch and nuclear-blast detection satellites are also great for spotting meteors as they flame out in the Earth’s atmosphere, and the Pentagon shared the latter information with scientists; the Pentagon says it will no longer do so
This cannot be good news: A new rule by the U.S. Department of Defense will deny U.S. top scientific the ability to check out data from classified satellites on incoming meteors hurtling toward earth.