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Another Big Kuiper Belt Object Found
DoraLives observes: "According to the BBC a Huge rock-ice body circles Sun. At a shade over 350 miles across, it's not what you'd call planetary in size, but huge enough, I suppose, should it land in your back yard."
I don't know why this got modded as "offtopic". Granted it's flippant and not serious but if we terraform Mars or Venus, we'll need to do pretty much what this post says.
Granted, we don't have the tech to do it right this minute but by the time any terraforming effort is undertaken, the technology will either exist or it will become reasonable to develop it.
Not only does this object have water, but it probably has (literally) tons of ammonia and other useful compounds and elements. If that can be deposited into the Martian atmosphere, it will generate heat on entry, add pressure to the atmosphere and deliver the raw materials to manufacture some of the super-greenhouse gasses that will be needed.
Check out this if you want to see more about this and other proposed terraforming tech.
Blaze a trail to the New World