But luckily, two ingenious members of Congress have already thought ahead and signed such a bill earlier this year. I suppose the idea is that a couple of signatures should make asteroid mining legal now as presumably such a thing was illegal before. The bill was signed by U.S. Representatives Bill Posey (R-FL) and Derek Kilmer (D-WA) who are both members of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.
The supermassive black hole is 40 million times as massive as the sun and powers a quasar that existed 700 million years after the Big Bang.
The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).
Images show surprise changes to the spacecraft as it interacted with the atmosphere.
