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Using Gravity To Tow Asteroids

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the and-you-thought-a-snails-pace-was-slow dept.

cryptocom writes "Space.com is reporting that two scientists at NASA are proposing using a 20-ton spacecraft to pull asteroids off a possible collision course with Earth, using the spacecraft's own gravity as an attractor. This idea would not only be cheaper, but have a much higher chance of success, due to not having to actually land on the asteroid's surface."

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  1. Re:that's what i was thinking by ENOENT · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The Chinese are already ahead of us. At least THEY can put a man in orbit.

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    That's "Mr. Soulless Automaton" to you, Bub.