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NASA Plans to Visit a Near-Earth Asteroid

Subject: NASA Plans to Visit a Near-Earth Asteroid
From: NASA Science News <snglist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:16:38 -0500

NASA Science News for August 16, 2011

NASA is planning a daring new mission to visit a near-Earth asteroid. The spacecraft, named OSIRIS-REx, will orbit 1999 RQ36 for a year before gathering samples for return to Earth.

FULL STORY at

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/16aug_osirisrex/

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