Anybody prepared to meet Asteroid 2012 TC4 ?

                                                      Could this not be the time
                                               for a bit of space harvesting practice
                                                  as on October 12th of this year
                                         Asteroid 2012 TC4  is expected to pass Earth
                                         at a distance of perhaps only 7000 kilometers?

                                   Link to: Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS)

Luxembourg's new law on the exploration and use of space resources

                                     This law will come into force on August 1, 2017.
                                                              It explicitly states
                            "Les ressources de l’espace sont susceptibles d’appropriation
                                             en conformité avec le droit international"
         and it "establishes the procedures for authorizing and supervising space exploration missions".

                                                     Link to: "SpaceResources.lu"

                             The English translation of the draft law is now available online.

            Link to: DRAFT LAW ON THE EXPLORATION AND USE OF SPACE RESOURCES


                       As Planetary Resources have formulated it in their latest press release
                        "Luxembourg is the first European country to have a legal framework
                                         recognising the right to space-based resources
                         that they have extracted in compliance with existing international law,
                                             most notably the 1967 Outer Space Treaty."
                                      Link to: "Space Mining Law Passes In Luxembourg"

"Giuseppe should soon be whirling towards Mercury"

                                         Watching Bepicolombo's gravity-assist itinerary
                                                     to the planet closest to the Sun
                                                       might well make some of us
                                                              feel a little bit dizzy.

                           Link to: "ESA Science; BEPICOLOMBO'S JOURNEY TO MERCURY"
                                  Link to: "Giuseppe 'Bepi' Colombo: Grandfather of the fly-by"

Reflection on Asteroid Deflection

                                                            Unlike the dinosaurs
                                                              the human species
                                                                is at least trying
                                                                 to keep an eye
                                            on those potentially very nasty space rocks.


                                   Link to: "Are asteroids humanity's 'greatest challenge'?"

"Asteroid Day Live" on Friday, 30th June 2017

                             
                            30th June 2017 could become an "impactful" new-media event,
                         as this will be "the first-ever global 24-hour broadcast about space,
                                                         and specifically asteroids".

                                             Link to: "Learn more about the Broadcast"

Making "Space Dirt": a clean-cut project by DSI

                                          Deep Space Industries have started delivering
                                                             space dirt made on Earth
                                                     (i.e." asteroid regolith simulants ")
                                                                    to NASA 
                                                and are expected to produce more 
                                for the scientific community and the space mining industry.

                      Link to: "Small Business Manufactures ‘Space Dirt’ for NASA Research"

Not promising the moon, but ...

                               The European Space Agency remains staunchly consistent
                                    in its quest to create habitable structures on the moon
                                         "using all resources available at the destination".

                                                   Link to: ESA "Returning to the Moon"