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OSIRIS-Rex: Bringing Home Pieces of an Asteroid
Space.com-22 hours ago
That's when NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission will return a sample of the asteroid Bennu, a carbon-rich rock hosting traces of the early solar system.
Nasa's probe will scan for building blocks of life and bring samples ...
In-Depth-Daily Mail-13 hours ago
In-Depth-Daily Mail-13 hours ago
NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission Completes Robotic Design ...
Highly Cited-Space Ref (press release)-Aug 15, 2016
Highly Cited-Space Ref (press release)-Aug 15, 2016
First U.S. asteroid sample collection mission ready for Space Coast ...
In-Depth-Orlando Sentinel-Aug 17, 2016
In-Depth-Orlando Sentinel-Aug 17, 2016
How to Succeed in the Asteroid Business Without Really Mining
WIRED-14 hours ago
A growing set of companies, including Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources, want to mine asteroids for all they're worth.
The Biggest Barrier to Asteroid Mining
Popular Mechanics-Aug 16, 2016
Before we deal with the sticky legality, it's important to understand how much sense asteroid mining really makes. "The economic arguments for ...
See asteroid 2 Pallas at its best during August 2016
Astronomy Now Online-Aug 15, 2016
Second-largest asteroid 2 Pallas reaches oppostion on Saturday, 20 August 2016 close to the border of constellations Pegasus and Equuleus ...
No, Asteroid Bennu Won't Destroy Earth
Space.com-Aug 1, 2016
NASA's new asteroid-sampling mission will do a lot of interesting things, but helping prepare humanity for Earth's imminent destruction is not ...
This Mining Company Plans to Land on an Asteroid in Three Years
Gizmodo-Aug 11, 2016
Asteroid mining is still in its infancy—no would-be miners have managed to land on a space rock, much less harvest the water and metals ...
Deep Space Industries unveils first asteroid prospecting spacecraft
Highly Cited-SpaceNews-Aug 10, 2016
Highly Cited-SpaceNews-Aug 10, 2016
This Week's Night Sky: See an Asteroid Pass and Meteors Peak
National Geographic-Aug 8, 2016
Asteroid Encounter. Late night on August 9 offers a great opportunity to spy on the second largest worldlet between the orbits of Mars and ...
How Far is the Asteroid Belt from Earth?
Universe Today-Aug 10, 2016
The Asteroid Belt consists of several large bodies, coupled with millions of smaller size. The larger bodies, such as Ceres, Vesta, Pallas, and ...
Chasing Bennu: Inside NASA's daring mission to capture asteroid ...
Ars Technica-Aug 12, 2016
Chasing Bennu: Inside NASA's daring mission to capture asteroid pebbles. A few weeks out from the launch of OSIRIS-REx, Ars checks in with ...
How lasers will map asteroid Bennu
Cosmos-Aug 14, 2016
A closer look at how the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA) will provide a three-dimensional map of asteroid Bennu's shape.
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