SETI bioastro: Asteroid in near-Earth orbit - sampling mission for building blocks of life

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From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Fri Mar 23 2007 - 08:41:59 PDT

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    Asteroid in near-Earth orbit - sampling mission for building blocks of life

    March 17, 2007

    Did organic molecules get to Earth from asteroids? OSIRIS is NASA’s mission
    to collect a sample from an asteroid in a near-Earth orbit. The asteroid is
    half a kilometre in diameter and hence has no gravity. To get the sample,
    the mission will ‘kiss’ the asteroid. The sample will be tested to determine
    whether if it contains the building blocks of life. The mission will be
    launched in 2011, will arrive in 2013, spend a year there, then return in
    2017.

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    http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2007/1873586.htm

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