Planetoid Mining: Key to the Space Economy
Science/Astronomy:
* Asteroid Mining: Key to the Space Economy
http://www.space.com/adastra/060209_adastra_mining.html
The Near Earth Asteroids offer both threat and promise. They present the threat
of planetary impact with regional or global disaster. And they also offer the
promise of resources to support humanity's long-term prosperity on Earth, and
our movement into space and the solar system.
* 'Big' Discovery: Hypergiant Stars Might Harbor Planets
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/0602...iant_stars.html s said today.
* Image of the Day: Force Fit on Mars
http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_060209.html
What happens when wind and volcanoes work on Mars? NASA's Spirit Mars rover is
finding out.