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Scientists seek to corral asteroid for study



Photo credit: http://nerdinsider.com/files/2012/04/Tethered_asteroid.png


by Lisa M. Krieger

Scheming to rearrange the heavens, scientists are busy 
planning how to pluck, push and park a spinning asteroid between here and the moon. While most of us hope to dodge space rocks, NASA has unveiled an ambitious, $105 million* plan to build a spaceship to drag one closer to Earth. It's the Space Age equivalent of bringing the mountain to Muhammad (careful there, this may not be politically correct) and a first step in our future voyage to Mars.
Blogger note:  
What! 
Only $105 million?  That's much, much, much  less than the trillions of dollars of debt our present government has bestowed on us and our children and grandchildren, our great-grandchildren and their children's descendents, ad infinitum.



Asteroids command our respect because a big one could play us like a billiard ball. February's twofer - a little one rocked Russia and a bigger one was a near miss - only added to the anxiety.
But they're also valuable, and pursuing one could launch us into deeper space.
That's because we'll need a vehicle a whole lot better than a fuel-driven rocket. With an infusion of new NASA money, engineers hope to design a futuristic solar-electric vehicle that would make a slow, steady and sustainable trip to find an . It's the journey, not just the destination, that thrills scientists.


After finding a suitable space rock orbiting our way, the spaceship might push, tug or harpoon the asteroid. Or it might stuff the rock into a big bag, or perhaps lasso it in some 21st century version of a Roy Rogers rope trick.
"As a space-faring country it has been more than 40 years since we have been to deep space," out where asteroids lurk, said Stanford University aeronautics professor G. Scott Hubbard, who conceived the Mars Pathfinder mission and formerly directed NASA Ames.


Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-scientists-corral-asteroid.html#jCp




Scientists seek to corral asteroid for study:
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-scientists-corral-asteroid.html

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