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It can also be worthwhile to capture asteroids into Earth orbit just to study them scientifically. It's way easier logistically to support human researchers wh
by jessriedel 6y ago
It can also be worthwhile to capture asteroids into Earth orbit just to study them scientifically. It's way easier logistically to support human researchers when they are only a couple days' trip from home rather than a 6 month trip.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoThis one seems to be on an Earth-Mars circuit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Bennu_Orbit.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Bennu_Or... So who knows, maybe it's a piece of Mars, ejected a long time ago? Either way, worth looking into; we've studied so few space rocks that the marginal benefit of the first few we could capture will be huge.