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Jay Tate is director at the Spaceguard Centre, a working observatory near Knighton, and the main source of information about near Earth objects in the UK.

As John Barrow, the renowned English professor of astronomy, put it ... no-boundary condition' proposed by James Hartle and Stephen Hawking. There are others too - of rival specifications ...