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Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho, It's Off to the Asteroid Mines We Go?

2013-08-14 01:45:28| TechNewsWorld

Researchers in the UK recently identified 12 small asteroids close enough to Earth to be used in mining operations that could begin as early as 2021. The research was part of a larger effort by both private and public institutions to learn more about the potential for tapping into asteroids that could contain large deposits of valuable resources including platinum, iron-nickel ore or gold.

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NASA issues asteroid 'Grand Challenge' to all

2013-06-18 22:09:17| CNET News.com

NASA calls on industry, academia, government agencies, and citizens alike to find ways to identify and ward off asteroid threats. [Read more]    

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Asteroid capture program needs your help to prove were smarter than the dinosaurs

2013-06-18 21:16:26| Extremetech

The US government is planning a series of "Grand Challenges" to the public and the research sector of science, the latest of which involves keeping vigilant watch over our skies.

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Watch the enormous QE2 binary asteroid pass by Earth

2013-05-31 19:02:51| CNET News.com

NASA will broadcast pictures of the huge binary asteroid as it zips by, and you can watch it here. [Read more]    

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Rare asteroid with its own moon will terrify Earth-dwellers as it flies by today

2013-05-31 17:19:57| Extremetech

As a certain sci-fi opus once taught us, space is really, really big. By comparison, our planet is a microscopic speck in the universe, and the asteroids zipping around the (possibly) infinite black are even smaller. So, when an asteroid flies near Earth in a place so big and empty -- and that asteroid has its own moon -- the odds are astronomical.

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