Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Asteroid Landing

Posted by michael on from the five-mph-bumpers-standard dept.

guardia writes "This is my first submit to Slashdot and the following looked cool enough to me and since I haven't seen it posted yet on Slashdot, here goes! Basically, the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, ISAS, is planning to launch the M-V rocket from its Kagoshima Space Center located in Uuchinoura, Kagoshima. The rocket will contain the small craft Muses-C (also available in Japanese) which should land on Asteroid 1998SF36 (the "star prince"), leave a million names or so (you can register yours for free!) on the target marker, and come back with some surface samples."

1 of 21 comments (clear)

  1. Spam from space by misfit13b · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah great, and now that they have your name, all the ETs have to do is a Google search and you'll start getting collect telemarketing calls from outer space!