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He also talks with UCF Professor and Asteroid Expert Humberto Campins about whether any asteroids are headed our way and whether they can be diverted.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmfe.org\/site\/News2?page=NewsArticle&amp;id=13829&amp;news_iv_ctrl=1041\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Campins, an international expert on asteroids, led a team of scientists who first discovered water ice and organic molecules on an asteroid in 2010. He also is a member of the NASA team now preparing the OSIRIS-REx mission, which will bring back a sample from a nearby asteroid and is scheduled for launch in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Campins also is a member of the MarcoPolo-R mission, which the European Space Agency has approved for further study. The MarcoPolo-R spacecraft could be launched by 2020-22 to return samples from another asteroid. 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