New Asteroid Highway? Space Rock Orbit Reveals a Surprise Shortcut to Mars

A revised asteroid calculation may have opened a new expressway to Mars and back; experts believe that we could shrink a round trip to the Red Planet from 14-20 months to more than half of that. The idea comes from a paper published in Acta Astronautica that treated an early, later-corrected orbit for asteroid 2001 CA21 as a kind of map for

