ASTRONOMY CROWD SPOTS PLANET KILLER! Well, not quite. But: “Unravelling DNA, identifying exoplanets, and now, spotting near-Earth asteroids: is there anything that science can’t outsource to an Internet crowd? The European Space Agency has announced that its Space Situational Awareness program, in which amateur astronomers pitch into to help analyze sky survey photographs, has turned up its first near-Earth object.”

Somebody should write a book on this phenomenon.