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How Planetary Resource’s Asteroid Search Could Help Find Exoplanets

Thursday, August 23, 2012 16:11

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Planetary Resources is the private company that wants to eventually mine asteroids for profit. But initially, the group will focus on developing Earth orbiting telescopes to scan for the best asteroids, and then later, create low-cost robotic spacecraft for surveying missions and then actual spacecraft to do the mining.

But in the meantime, Planetary Resources has opened up the option of allowing access to their Arkyd-100 space telescope to others, and put out the question: “What would you do if you had access to our Arkyd-100 space telescopes?”

An MIT Researcher said he could use the Arkyd telescope to find alien planets.
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