[Rockhounds] The Asteroid Bennu

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Earth first! We will mine the other planets later.

If it is not grown, it has to be mined (and plants do their own mining with
their roots).

Kreigh

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 11:17 PM Alan Goldstein <deepskyspy at outlook.com>
wrote:

> For someone on a Rockhound list, your response is puzzling. Humans (most
> of us, anyway) are curious and whether one explores earth or space, our
> species has a long history of wanting to discover the unknown. It is these
> discoveries that advance us as a species. If all we did was spend money on
> food and shelter, we'd still be living in caves and drawing on walls. And
> while I agree with your assessment of the political situation, science in
> America has survived 45 presidents and will keep us going forward.
>
> So keep those asteroid reports coming. I prefer asteroids to hemorrhoids
> any day of the week!
>
> Alan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rockhounds <rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com> On Behalf Of
> Dora Smith
> Sent: Monday, September 14, 2020 9:24 PM
> To: rockhounds at rockhounds.drizzle.com
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] The Asteroid Bennu
>
> You mean they spent a WHOLE SPACE MISSION to land on an ASTEROID just to
> find out how much rock it is made of vs ice?
>
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Do you KNOW how many people we could have fed and sheltered with that
> money.   Geez!
>
> Nothing better to do.  We'd better have a new President soon!
>
> Yours,
>
> Dora Smith
>
> On 9/14/20 6:29 PM, Jim Mills wrote:
> > With all of those interesting papers on Planetary Geology that Paul
> > has posted lately, I wanted to make sure that everybody had seen the
> > NASA news release about the planned October landing on the very small
> > asteroid Bennu and then picking up a chunk and bringing it back to
> > earth.  What an interesting way to collect meteorites!! They have
> > already done two dress rehearsals and gotten to within 40 meters of
> > the surface.
> >
> > https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7743
> >
> > Be sure to click on the hot link in the article that says repeatedly
> > launched into space and then watch the video animation of particles
> > ejected along with their trajectory.  Really interesting science.
> >
> > Jim Mills
> >
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