"NASA is reportedly mulling over plans to lasso an asteroid and force it to orbit the moon..."
http://now.msn.com/nasa-considers-plan- … -satellite
I am very pro NASA. But if a decimal point should happen to be misplaced, and the asteroid decides to drop by Earth...
Very interesting idea. The risks are pretty negligible - they're talking about capturing a 20-foot-long asteroid, so the worst-case scenario if it were to hit the Earth is some minor property damage.
I'm curious about the whole "put it in a sack" part of the plan. That seems almost comically simplistic. Scientists have proposed all sorts of interesting ideas for steering an asteroid - from solar sails to paint bombs to gravity tractors to nuclear explosions. This is the first I've heard of putting an asteroid in a bag and taking it home.
The fact that NASA is seriously considering this is great. It's the kind of Boldly Go stuff they need to be doing.
That does sound like a worthwhile project all right. We could learn an awful lot just from the effort, let alone having an asteroid to examine.
Better, though, would be to capture a small comet and use that. Wouldn't that make a pretty bauble in our night sky? Cosmic artwork!
On the down side, just as the article points out, can you imagine what it would do to the astrologers? Poor souls would have to spend decades redoing all their "calculations".
It would never happen, the occupants of the moon would not put up with it!
Why? I would think it would raise their self esteem.
Rather than simply being a captive slave of a bigger and prettier earth, they would then have their very own captive slave!
by Stacie L 13 years ago
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by dishyum 13 years ago
# The Sun is 330,000 times larger than the Earth.# The moons of all other planets in the solar system are named after Greek gods, except for those of Uranus, which are named after Shakespearean characters.Got more?
by Andrew Petrou 9 years ago
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by Stacie L 13 years ago
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by Credence2 2 years ago
The last men had set foot on its surface during the early 1970s. It is time to return to do great science and get a base constructed at the lunar South Pole.
by Jo_Goldsmith11 11 years ago
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