Can you own an asteroid?
Plans to mine minerals on celestial bodies could violate international space law
From Slate | June 6, 2012
A radar image of asteroid 2005 YU55, which would trigger a 7.1-magnitude earthquake were it to collide with Earth.
NASA/Cornell/Arecibo
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