Iron outside = Iron inside

From: "Al Globus"
To:
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: [spacesettlers] Iron outside = Iron inside

> I would like to re-introduce a completely different approach to asteroid
> mining to this group. See
> http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/papers/AsterAnts/paper.html. Basic idea:
> find very small asteroids (~1 meter diameter) and return the whole thing
> to Earth orbit. Use a large fleet of solar sail powered spacecraft to
> get large amounts of returned mass. Using a large fleet gives you
> economies of manufacturing scale and failure tolerance. Returning whole
> asteroids avoids the uncertainties of rock mining.
[snikt]

Hi Al,

And what about the problem of meteoroid rotation, that you pointed out some
while ago? (I even suggested "touchless dragging", based on diamagnetism, to
circumvent this problem, though I did not now about the feasibility of the
suggestion...)

Lucio Coelho