Asteroid mining: A potential trillion-dollar industry

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Earth's newest celestial neighbor has finally arrived. Astronomers using a powerful telescope in Sutherland, South Africa, first detected the 33-foot-long asteroid in August, reporting their discovery in Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society. There are bigger space rocks, to be sure. But what... read full story

"offer a glimpse into the processes that formed our solar system,"

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