In a multi-part interview with Moonandback, Henry Spencer discussed various aspects of asteroids including their composition, origin, probes, mining, Planetary Resources, and more:
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The Planetary Society‘s weekly Hangout yesterday included Dante Lauretta, the principal investigator of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission , which will take off in 2016 on a mission to visit the near-Earth carbonaceous asteroid (101955) . The show also included Mike Puzio, age 9, of North Carolina who won the OSIRIS-REx Name That Asteroid contest (see earlier posting).