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Aug 11

NASA Plans to Visit a Near-Earth Asteroid

category: Asteroids, NASA Comments Off

NASA is planning a daring new mission to visit a near-Earth asteroid. The spacecraft, named OSIRIS-REx, will orbit 1999 RQ36 for a year before gathering samples for return to Earth.(read more)

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