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FYI: NASA has sent a snatch-and-grab spacecraft to an asteroid to seize some rock and send it back to Earth

Tuesday December 4, 2018. 01:26 AM , from TheRegister
Off-planet manic miner reaches orbit around its prey: Bennu
NASA's mission to send a probe to an asteroid, dig up a chunk, and send the material back to Earth is now half-way complete. The agency says its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has reached its hunk-of-rock target after a trip lasting two years and two billion miles.…
go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/04/osiris_bennu_mission/
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