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August 31, 2011 06:05 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/IcfXDnGN9lk/Chinese-Want-To-Capture-an-Asteroid
Chinese Want To Capture an Asteroid
geekmansworld writes "The Chinese want to capture an asteroid into earth's orbit and mine it. From the article: 'At first glance, nudging an asteroid closer to Earth seems like one of those "what could possible go wrong" scenarios that we generally try and avoid, and for good reason: large asteroid impacts are bad times. The Chinese, though, seem fairly optimistic that they could tweak the orbit of a near-Earth asteroid by just enough (a change in velocity of only about 1,300 feet-per-second or so) to get it to temporarily enter Earth orbit at about twice the distance as the Moon.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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