NASA has been preparing for the next asteroid that will potentially hit Earth for a few years now. The particular project they are developing right now is called the Asteroid Redirect Mission, or “ARM.” In the plan for this multi-step project, NASA is developing the first robotic mission ever, to visit an asteroid near earth, collect samples of boulders, and redirect the asteroid into a stable orbit around the moon. Eventually, they plan to have humans go out and do these missions, but predict that will only happen in the 2030s, or so. NASA’s goal is to find an asteroid that could be redirected to the lunar orbit in the 2020s, but have yet to choose a candidate, and let me just add they are choosing a candidate out of over 1000 discovered near-Earth asteroids. The scientists also believe that more will be discovered in the coming years. The way they will choose their candidate is by studying the different asteroids’ velocities, orbits, sizes, and spins. The point of doing all thi
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