COSMIC YO-YO
BY ROSS ROCKLYNNE
from
Planet Stories Summer 1945
“Want an asteroid in your backyard? We supply cheap. Trouble also handled without charge.” Interplanetary Hauling Company. (ADVT.)
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BOB PARKER, LOOKING through the photo-amplifiers at the wedge-shaped asteroid, was plainly flabbergasted. Not in his wildest imaginings had he thought they would actually find what they were looking for.
“Cut the drive!” he yelled at Queazy. “I’ve got it, right on the nose. Queazy, my boy, can you imagine it? We’re in the dough. Not only that, we’re rich! Come here!”
Queazy discharged their tremendous inertia into the motive-tubes in such a manner that the big, powerful ship was moving at the same rate as the asteroid below—47.05 miles per second. He came slogging back excit
