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As a sizable asteroid makes a close pass by Earth, a team of UArizona students is ready to observe the action to practice and test procedures that could be useful in mitigating an impending asteroid impact in the future.
Researchers suspect the fragment may have been debris from a cratering event on the lunar surface
New research shows how essential metals could be mined from near earth asteroids in the future. Credit: Public DomainA new study published in the planetary Science Journal found that mining near-Earth asteroids, or NEAs, for their metal reserves may be possible in the future.NEAs that are rich in metal reserves are uncommon, but they do…
Their presence provides intriguing possibility that iron, nickel and cobalt could someday be mined for use on Earth or space.
Metal-rich near-Earth asteroids, or NEAs, are rare, but their presence provides the intriguing possibility that iron, nickel and cobalt could someday