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NASA is offering $35,000 in awards to asteroid hunters

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 10, 2014 | 3:34 pm Base Metals Precious Metals Gold Iron Ore Nickel Palladium Platinum 

The US space agency, in partnership with asteroid-mining firm Planetary Resources, said Monday it will give away $35,000 in awards over the next six months to citizen scientists who can develop improved algorithms to find space rocks that could pose...

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