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To: RightWhale
Yep, they'd be very useful.
Not if they collide with Earth, though.

A Close Asteroid Flyby

4 posted on 06/22/2002 9:38:09 PM PDT by petuniasevan
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To: petuniasevan
Not if they collide with Earth

We need to capture them and if we can't mine them right away at least put them into convenient orbits. This can be done already, we have the tech. The economic question is still open, however, until actual mining begins. I have numbers for the economic question; mining can be done as far as business is concerned.

5 posted on 06/22/2002 9:45:00 PM PDT by RightWhale
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