Nasa Wants To Capture An Asteroid (By Golly, Those Geniuses at NASA)

Telegraph ^ | March 26, 2014 | David Milward

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The American space agency wants to work out how it can grab an asteroid or at least a large chunk of one.

Corralling a large piece of space rock is a key part of the agency’s Asteroid Grand Challenge and the Asteroid Redirect Mission.

Despite the damage caused by a meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk last year, Nasa believes the earth is safe from an asteroid collision for at least a century.

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"Based on current observations of known asteroids - thus, they “believe”, not “guarantee”."

The number of known asteroids is so tiny as to make their statement utterly meaningless. So why say it?