Posted 05.15.2012 at 12:40 pm
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Asteroid Eros
This spud-shaped rock is asteroid 433 Eros. Gregory W. Nemitz claimed to own it and aims to develop it. In 2003, he sued NASA in search of parking fees after the NEAR spacecraft alighted on it.
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We haven’t heard much about if from NASA yet, but the Telegraph is reporting that the space agency will soon begin training up an international crew of astronauts for a potential manned mission to an asteroid slated for later in the next decade. Starting next month, six astronauts are headed to the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operation (NEEMO), the underwater habitat off the Florida coast that will serve as a simulator for the long duration mission to an asteroid, the UK outlet reports.
The multinational team of asteroid astronauts, which includes Britain’s first official astronaut with the European Space Agency, will spend its time living in tight quarters 65 feet beneath the ocean surface for 12 days, during which time crew members will undertake simulated spacewalks on the seafloor and learn to pilot vehicles in much the same way they would if they were working in proximity to an asteroid.
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Dit ditt, dit dit, telegraph told POPSCI? Really?
I hope the technology going to this asteroid will be more advance than a telegraph.
"....In February 2000 NASA’s NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft approached Eros, established orbit and made a soft landing on its surface, the first mission ever to do so. While in orbit NEAR took over 160,000 images of Eros’ surface, identifying over 100,000 craters, a million house-sized boulders (give or take a few) and helped researchers conclude that the cashew-shaped Eros is a solid object rather than a “rubble pile” held together by gravity...."
http://www.universetoday.com/93101/asteroid-to-make-closest-approach-since-1975/
"...We report major element composition ratios for regions of the asteroid 433 Eros imaged during two solar flares and quiet sun conditions during the period of May to July 2000. Low aluminum abundances for all regions argue against global differentiation of Eros. Magnesium/silicon, aluminum/silicon, calcium/silicon, and iron/silicon ratios are best interpreted as a relatively primitive, chondritic composition. Marked depletions in sulfur and possible aluminum and calcium depletions, relative to ordinary chondrites, may represent signatures of limited partial melting or impact volatilization..." http://www.mendeley.com/research/elemental-composition-asteroid-433-eros-results-nearshoemaker-xray-spectrometer-1/
I do not think NASA\Earth will get rich from Eros, but it would be a great achievment and stay there for a month and return safely.
Good Luck!
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What are they going to use to get there, an Electric golf cart? Maybe Thumb a ride with the Commie Chinese or the pay EXPENSIVELY for a "Taxi Ride" with Almost Commie Again Ruskies??
This is all Bullchit. Remember America, THANKS TO MaoBama, WE HAVE NO SPACE VEHICLE!! Even Orion is DOA.
Novemeber 2012, the Revolution Begins.
i wonder if things will be like in that movie "Armageddon"
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@websterphreaky...you are officially an idiot, first for bringing politics here, second for not knowing the Bush administration started the long overdue retirement of the shuttles, and third not realizing the shuttles were incapable of anything other than low-earth orbit, negative cheers
Drunk Chuck,
You have so many choices and often enough you go for the insult and yes later you gave some information, but only to be condescending. Perhaps you do have a doctrine of an education, but I always see you as person with narcissistic personality disorder, plague with insecurity.
You travel around the country and world and give lectures only to appease your own ego. You come back to your room sometimes a little drunk and then need to feed you insecurity ego again by insulting others. You will always be sad sad lonely Drunk Chuck.
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Science sees no further than what it can sense, i.e. facts.
Religion sees beyond the senses, i.e. faith.
Open your mind and see!
Why would it take a year to visit an asteroid 3 million miles away? The Venus flyby proposed in the early 1970's was the same timelength, & that included swinging out to 1.3 AU during the return trip! is 3 million miles a typo, or is there more to the story?
Confused (as usual)- Pioneer10