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NASA identifies three potential asteroids for capture and drag into orbit around the Moon

Thursday, September 12, 2013 2:04
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The US space agency has narrowed its hunt for an asteroid to capture to three, NASA said Wednesday.
 
The asteroids fit the requirements of being between seven to 10 meters (yards) in size, and further study should be able to narrow the choice even more, scientists said at a conference in San Diego, California.
 
“We have two to three which we will characterize in the next year and if all goes well… those will be valid candidates that could be certified targets,” said Paul Chodas, senior scientist at the NASA Near-Earth Object Program Office.
 
 
 
The plan is to send a robotic spacecraft to capture the asteroid and drag it into orbit around the Moon.
 

Once there, astronauts could visit the asteroid and take samples of it back to Earth for study.
 
 

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  • nazi nasa is the all seeing eye of the pyramid scam of billionaires, the peak of that pyramid, in plain sight the good folks at NASA.. Ask yourself why Russia has yet to get a human being to orbit the moon not once in the past fifty years why did armstrong never do interviews wake up zombies the mountains of evidence nasa pulled a hoax is overwhelmning NAZI NASA has you all hypnotized NAZI GERMANY through their funders the Rothschild dynasty won ww2 and own the usa. NAZI NASA NECER A STRAIGHT ANSWER believe nothing these scum bags these evil reptilian spirited claim ..they are hiding the truth that their God approaches Tyche aka The Red Katchina aka NIBIRU system aka comet ISON wake up zombiees you end is near

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