[meteorite-list] Holmes [17P], continued

[Darren Garrison]

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:13:04 -0500, you wrote:

>What a remarkable object!  It will be fascinating to follow its changes day 
>by day.

It is really depressing that, nearly 40 years after landing on the moon, we
can't just detour some asteroid mining crew to go have a look at the thing and
see what's up.  We could very easily have been at that stage now, if we hadn't
just given up and play with toys in LEO.