Hayabusa Spots Asteroid Itokawa

for background see:
Japan shoots for a piece of an asteroid

Hayabusa sample-return mission nears critical stage

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8131678/

Jim Oberg wrote:
for background see:
Japan shoots for a piece of an asteroid

Hayabusa sample-return mission nears critical stage

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8131678/


Keep a close eye on what the Japanese are up to with those asteroids.
Directed asteroid impacts would be would be much more devastating
weapons than any H-Bombs!

Double-A

"Double-A" wrote in message
oups.com...

Jim Oberg wrote:
for background see:
Japan shoots for a piece of an asteroid

Hayabusa sample-return mission nears critical stage

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8131678/


Keep a close eye on what the Japanese are up to with those asteroids.
Directed asteroid impacts would be would be much more devastating
weapons than any H-Bombs!

They will get us back for Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Mark Earnest wrote:
"Double-A" wrote in message
oups.com...

Jim Oberg wrote:
for background see:
Japan shoots for a piece of an asteroid

Hayabusa sample-return mission nears critical stage

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8131678/


Keep a close eye on what the Japanese are up to with those asteroids.
Directed asteroid impacts would be would be much more devastating
weapons than any H-Bombs!

They will get us back for Hiroshima and Nagasaki?


Honorable katakiuchi!

Double-A

"Double-A" wrote in message
oups.com...

Jim Oberg wrote:
for background see:
Japan shoots for a piece of an asteroid

Hayabusa sample-return mission nears critical stage

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8131678/


Keep a close eye on what the Japanese are up to with those asteroids.
Directed asteroid impacts would be would be much more devastating
weapons than any H-Bombs!

The advantage is that you could occupy the land after blasting it, because
it wouldn't be radioactive. If an asteroid is too big, it would cause world
wide problems. I don't know how big it has to be for that. Moving big
asteroids is not so easy and would probably take nuclear energy.

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:39:18 GMT, Jim Oberg wrote:

for background see:
Japan shoots for a piece of an asteroid

Hayabusa sample-return mission nears critical stage

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8131678/

A pretty ambitious project by the Japanese, I'm looking forward to cool
images and keeping my fingers crossed.
Too bad the mission hardly gets any media coverage, I myself didn't even
know about it until now...

--
The butler did it.

Double-A wrote:


Keep a close eye on what the Japanese are up to with those asteroids.
Directed asteroid impacts would be would be much more devastating
weapons than any H-Bombs!



What would be even worse is if they deflected an asteroid into
Earth....and it _hatched_, releasing a flying three-headed monster that
could shoot lightning bolts out of its mouths.
That's happened before, you know... ;-)

Pat

Ugo wrote:
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:39:18 GMT, Jim Oberg wrote:

for background see:
Japan shoots for a piece of an asteroid

Hayabusa sample-return mission nears critical stage

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8131678/

A pretty ambitious project by the Japanese, I'm looking forward to cool
images and keeping my fingers crossed.
Too bad the mission hardly gets any media coverage, I myself didn't even
know about it until now...

--
The butler did it.

See http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/index.shtml for more info on various
projects.

The few Japanese project web sites which were in English that I visited
in the past seemed a bit rudimentry. Hopefully that will improve.

Its easy to take the big publicity effort that NASA puts into its
projects for granted. When that content is missing elswhere in non-NASA
programs, its starkly noticable.


RL

Pat Flannery wrote:
Double-A wrote:


Keep a close eye on what the Japanese are up to with those asteroids.
Directed asteroid impacts would be would be much more devastating
weapons than any H-Bombs!



What would be even worse is if they deflected an asteroid into
Earth....and it _hatched_, releasing a flying three-headed monster that
could shoot lightning bolts out of its mouths.
That's happened before, you know... ;-)

Pat


Really?

Double-A

Yes very cool. I would love to see more missions to NEOs. I would
love to see a feasiblity study on resource extraction from NEOs for
water,fuel,oxygen and other resources with either robotic(most likely)
robotic missions or crewed missions.

Talking about asteroids are there any plans on the horizon, to send
probe(s)orbitor, lander or orbitor & lander to either Phobos/Demos in
the near future?

Just my $0.02

Space Cadet

derwetzelsDASHspacecadetATyahooDOTcom


Moon Society - St. Louis Chapter

http://www.moonsociety.org/chapters/stlouis/

The Moon Society is a non-profit educational and
scientific foundation formed to further scientific
study and development of the moon.