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To: Kevmo
The first spacefarer to snag one of these things is gonna be a trillionaire over night. That will be the real space race.

Yup. More metal than has been mined in the history of mankind. The fact that we haven't even plans for asteroid mining is disappointing.

11 posted on 04/27/2022 7:40:39 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: zeugma

It is a difficult prospect.

When these articles post about an asteroid coming near earth, they put it in such terms as this one: “roughly eight times the average distance between Earth and the moon.”

The trick will be to use the moon’s gravity to capture it, without having it land on people’s heads here on earth. I’m wondering if it’s possible to transfer a moon-orbiting satellite asteroid into an earth-orbiting satellite asteroid with a nudge here and there.


12 posted on 04/27/2022 7:50:14 AM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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