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[i]Wayne Hale, former space shuttle program manager, offered an alternative to the asteroid mission. "The rock is not on the way to Mars," Hale said. "Why would you not try to go to Phobos and pick the rock off the surface there?" Phobos is a small moon of Mars, about 7 miles across. Science journalist Miles O'Brien, who characterized an asteroid as a "contrived destination, seized upon this idea. "People would get excited about that. I could sell that to editors." ...the authors of [URL=http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2015-0225]this paper[/URL] have considered a Phobos alternative, and estimate NASA would only be able to grab a rock about 3 or 4 feet across from Phobos, rather than a 13-foot rock from an asteroid.[/i]
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