New Asteroid Threat

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> http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20030901/asteroid.html

This is a good opportunity to capture an asteroid and build something
in-situ. Or, leave it in its current orbit, - it apparently comes
very close at times.... I wonder what its made of?
It's made of rock going at 30km/s :-)

There's essentially no way to catch it (unless someone wants to build an Orion).

Might be interesting to shoot it up with a kinetic probe though; just to find out a bit more, but it's of no direct practical significance as far as mining goes.