[knarf]

My last count .........

eleventeen.

That was back in 67 ... or was it 8 ... hmmm ... maybe 9.

[GeronL]

OK.. I can understand capturing them but how do they escape again? It’s not like their speed increases, right?

[razorback-bert]

two asteroids the size of dishwashers

Are they the size of an undocumented dishwasher or a mechanical commercial dishwaster?

[Libloather]

[cripplecreek]

We need to permanently park one the size of an aircraft carrier in orbit so we can start burrowing in for a real space station.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This is one possibility of asteroid mining. An orbiting space station designed to capture and harvest these temporary moons at first, then if it works, capturing near Earth asteroids and even comets.

Granted, asteroid composition varies tremendously, for example 433 Eros, which is about the size of Manhattan, is believed to have more highly valuable platinum group metals than exist in all of Earth’s crust.