In a project starting in 2019 NASA plans to “Lasso” a 500 ton asteroid with a giant robotic spacecraft, in hopes to bring it closer to earth for study.
By JG Vibes
Intellihub.com
April 6, 2013
The planning process alone for this project will
cost $100 million, and that is likely to be gone before the equipment is actually fully purchased and built. Both the politicians and the scientists are claiming that this is safe, and their excuse for spending so much money is that they are claiming it will help to protect earth from asteroids in the future.
http://intellihub.com/2013/04/.....-to-earth-for-study/