
Queen rocker Brian May is helping scientists raise £160million to
build an orbiting space observatory to save the world from asteroid attack.
The boffins have named June 30 as ‘Asteroid Day’ to help raise the cash to build and launch Sentinel.
Supporters other than guitarist May
include Martin Rees, the astronomer royal; biologist Richard Dawkins;
Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart; Nobel laureate Sir Harold Kroto;
British astronaut Helen...