asteroids
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How NASA’s Plan To Capture An Asteroid Is Crucial To Human Survival
NASA is committed to grab an asteroid and put it into lunar orbit in the next decade, using a robotic system to put a 12 metre rock into a space shopping bag, and then tow it to the Moon. This apparently useless mission is actually crucial to the survival of humankind.
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Watch A Huge, Newly Discovered Asteroid Almost Graze Earth
This beautiful tracking video shows Asteroid 2013 XY8 buzzing our planet on Tuesday night. It’s estimated to be up to 70m across, more than three times the size of the Chelyabinsk asteroid that caused havoc earlier this year. And we only discovered it four days ago. This could’ve gotten hairy.
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A Full View Of The Gigantic Asteroid Vesta
At 531.1km in diameter, Vesta is the second most massive object in the asteroid belt. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has been orbiting it for some time now, but it’s finally generated an image which shows the asteroid in all its glory.
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Researchers Identify 12 Asteroids Close Enough For Space Mining
Common sense would suggest that humans would want to do everything possible to discourage the asteroids hurdling through solar system from heading towards Earth. But in the too-futuristic era of space rock mining, that’s just not the case anymore.