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

[Jerry]

Poignant and sadly too true.
Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse at charter.net>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 12:20 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Holmes [17P], continued


> 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.
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