Asteroids and Mining

Discourse is appearing regarding missions to asteroids and Near Earth objects. Space  mining is likely to be the end use of these mining expeditions.

 

 

Asteroids are just one type of small bodies located in outer space.

What is an asteroid and how is it different from a planet?

http://www.google.com/search?q=define:Asteroid

 

Panel on Asteroids

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/augustinecommission/ 

http://www.transterrestrial.com/?p=19148

 

Who cares about asteroids?

Even a "relatively small metallic asteroid with a diameter of 1 mile can contain more than $20 trillion US dollars worth of industrial and precious metals".[1]  See footnote at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining. 

 

 

Mining

http://www.nss.org/settlement/asteroids/sonter.html

http://www1.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/SPACEMIN.HTM

http://www1.american.edu/TED/spacemin.htm

http://cygo.com/asteroid_mining_criteria.html

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=space+mining+and+augustine+commission&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-701

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/asteroid-99i.html

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_mining_011114-1.html

http://www.space-mining.com/ 

 

Industry Report

http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~shane/papers/ross-asteroid-mining-2001.pdf

 

Institute for Space Development Research

http://www.isdresearch.org/knowledgebase/space_resources/space_mining.html

 

Space Debris Treaty 2010

http://www.dodbuzz.com/2010/01/26/augustine-likes-space-debris-treaty/

 

NASA Missions

http://www.nasa.gov/missions/index.html

 

Landing on asteroids

http://science.howstuffworks.com/asteroid.htm

 

433 Eros and the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft mission

 

Missions to Comets

http://science.howstuffworks.com/comet.htm

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/24153-comets-when-comets-hit-earth-video.htm

 

NASA's Stardust Mission to a comet named Wild Dust 2

http://science.howstuffworks.com/comet5.htm

 

Issues

http://www.brighthub.com/science/space/articles/4320.aspx

http://www.brighthub.com/science/space/articles/58284.aspx

http://www.tricitiesnet.com/donsastronomy/mining.html

http://permanent.com/m-index.htm

http://www.space-mining.com/spacestation.html

http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/383154main_53%20%2020090803.7.toAugustineCommittee-2009-08-03.pdf

http://academic.evergreen.edu/curricular/ASTRO/astro98/aprojfolder/Asteroid/mining.htm

http://academic.evergreen.edu/curricular/ASTRO/astro98/aprojfolder/Asteroid/asteroid.htm

http://www.colonyworlds.com/2006/02/asteroid-mining-part-of-space-economy.html

https://www.spacefuture.com/archive/mining_economics_and_risk_control_in_the_development_of_near_earth_asteriod_resources.shtml

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYaf2ZE6LvY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGcAOiIPMIc&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrLuOFoPlRc

http://www.space.com/adastra/060209_adastra_mining.html

http://news.discovery.com/space/asteroid-life-origins.html

http://www.space.com/asteroids/

http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/asteroids/mining-asteroids/

http://blogs.discovery.com/space_disco/2009/06/mining-asteroids-and-getting-rich-or-not-1.html

http://s0.2mdn.net/1443686/Blackberry_BES_Topbits_Regular.html?rfp=http://www.topbits.com/space-mining.html

http://science.howstuffworks.com/asteroid-mining.htm

 

Economic feasibility of asteroid mining

http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/the_technical_and_economic_feasibility_of_mining_the_near_earth_asteriods.shtml

 

Moon Mining

http://search.nasa.gov/search/search.jsp?nasaInclude=mining

 

Contact experts who plan to mine:

http://www.spacemining.com.au/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PMNj3We4v4