Lawmakers in 36 states also have proposed legislation that would negate federal gun control initiatives, according to the non-profit Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group.

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Launching an online town hall meeting will allow more effective communication with citizens, said Ellen Miller, executive director at the Sunlight Foundation, a group that advocates government transparency.

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On Thursday, the company announced a partnership with the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit group that exposes legislative issues such as pork-barrel spending.

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According to the Sunlight Foundation, a government watchdog group, the NRA spends 66 times more on lobbying than what the Brady Campaign to End Gun violence, the country's top gun control advocacy organization, spends.

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Ellen Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, describes the Helium partnership as a "grand experiment" that will allow the group to reach more people through the Internet.

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To better predict the orbits of hazardous objects, this group is looking at the Yarkovsky effect, a force created when the asteroid absorbs sunlight and re-radiates it as heat.

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