Friday, April 12, 2013


NASA is planning to capture an asteroid and send astronauts up to it. They plan to this by 2017 even with the money they have. "This mission allows us to better develop our technology and systems to explore farther than we ever have before ... to places humanity has dreamed of for as long as I've been alive," NASA Administrator Charles Borden said. This is important because now are space program is not shut down and we can explore farther in space. To read more click here.



Asteroid 2012 DA14 made a record-close pass -- 17,100 miles -- by Earth on February 15. Most asteroids are made of rocks, but some are metal. They orbit mostly between Jupiter and Mars in the main asteroid belt. Scientists estimate there are tens of thousands of asteroids and when they get close to our planet, they are called near-Earth objects.

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