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Title: Asteroid Retrieval Feasibility Study
Summary / Review : "... a study sponsored by the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) to investigate the feasibility of identifying, robotically capturing, and returning an entire Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) to the vicinity of the Earth by the middle of the next decade." This report was popular in news for the general public around the same time as the Planetary Resources, Inc., initial announcement.
Author(s) : 34 coauthors, [Keck Institute for Space Studies, California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California]
Publication Type : Standalone Special report of special distribution
Publication Date: 2012
Pages : 52
# of References : 47
Category(s) : Exploration and resources / Asteroid
Transportation / Interorbital
Progress Type: A ( A=Analysis only, D=Design, T=Testing, C=Completed or Commercial product )
Web URL : http://kiss.caltech.edu/study/asteroid/asteroid_final_report.pdf
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PasadenaMay 7, 2012, 11:30 amThis study was published approximately 3 weeks before the Planetary Resources, Inc., announcement.

Of course, the Planetary Resources people were aware of this study well before it was published.
gunghoDecember 24, 2012, 2:39 amEmphasis is on retrieving an entire small asteroid or a chunk of one, bring it back to high Earth orbit to mine and process it there.