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  • Asteroid “ideal for mining exploration” to enter Earth’s orbit next week

    12/01/2021 4:46:19 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 26 replies
    Mining.com ^ | December 1, 2021 | Cecilia Jamasmie |
    As an Apollo-class asteroid, Nereus’ orbit frequently puts it close to Earth. Its orbital resonance is approximately 2:1, meaning that it orbits almost twice for every orbit of the Earth. This makes a mission to explore the asteroid very feasible. Nereus will come the closest to our planet it has been in the past 20 years, yet it set to pass 7.4 million km away, which is about 10 times the distance between the Moon and Earth. No missions are currently known to be ready to explore Nereus, however it has been considered before. Both NASA’s Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous-Shoemaker (NEAR)...