Asteroid Mining Plans Revealed by Planetary Resources, Inc. (with video) “Planetary Resources, Inc. announced today its plan to mine Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) for raw materials, ranging from water to precious […]
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Making Sure We Don't Get Hit
Evacuation? Surely we can do better!, B612 Foundation “The other day we had a couple of small asteroids narrowly miss hitting the Earth, and we only discovered them about a […]
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Post-Mission Conversation With A NASA NEEMO Aquanaut
A Post-Mission Conversation With NASA NEEMO Aquanaut Steve Squyres “Cowing: Let’s go back to what we were talking about several weeks ago before you began your NEEMO mission – the […]
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NASA Releases Vesta Images
NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Begins Science Orbits of Vesta, NASA “NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, the first ever to orbit an object in the main asteroid belt, is spiraling towards its first of […]
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Prox Ops at Vesta
Dawn Spacecraft to Enter Orbit Around Asteroid Vesta on July 15 “On July 15, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will begin a prolonged encounter with the asteroid Vesta, making the mission the […]
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Prox Ops At Vesta
Dawn Nears Start of Year-Long Stay at Giant Asteroid Vesta NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is on track to begin the first extended visit to a large asteroid. The mission expects to […]
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Looking Inside of Vesta
A Look into Vesta’s Interior “Researchers from the University of North Dakota and from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany have discovered a new kind of […]
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Visiting Plymouth Rock Via Dual Orions
‘Plymouth Rock’ Human Asteroid Trek Proposed for 2019, Ken Kremer “‘Plymouth Rock’ is the name of an ambitious new concept for an early human mission to explore a Near Earth […]
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NASA NEO Workshop
Huge asteroid on possible collision course with Earth (172 years from now), Christian Science Monitor “An international team, including NASA experts, say in new research that the space rock has […]
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Russian Asteroid Mission Needs Better Data
Space head: Russia may send spacecraft to asteroid “Without mentioning NASA findings, Perminov said that he heard from a scientist that Apophis is getting closer and may hit the planet. […]