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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Ice found on asteroid

Scientists have found something unexpected on an asteroid named 24 Themis. Only 140km or so in diameter, it naturally has minimal gravity. No one expected it to be covered (or even one-third covered) by water ice. This has important implications for future space exploration (especially since the President has mentioned a mission to an asteroid as a future human spaceflight goal).

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