Prize Offered for Mission To 'Tag' Near-Earth Asteroid
The Planetary Society is offering a $50,000 prize for the best design of a mission to "tag" a potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid with a tracking beacon. The "Apophis Mission Design Competition" aims at a concept for planting a radio beacon on the 400-meter-dia. asteroid that will fly within...
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