Planetary Society Offers $50,000 For Asteroid Tag Mission

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The Planetary Society is offering a $50,000 prize for the best design for a mission to rendezvous with and "tag" a potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid.

The objective of the Apophis Mission Design Competition will be to develop a concept to plant a tracking beacon on a 400-meter diameter asteroid that will fly within about 20,000 miles of Earth in 2029.

 

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