Existing Commercial Potential for Helium-3 from Luna Forum: SSI-List
Thread: Existing Commercial Potential for Helium-3 from Luna
# 21381 byFrank on Dec. 30, 2006, 1:10 a.m.
Member since 2022-08-22
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> > Wouldn't it be a lot more economical to get this material from a
> Near
> > Earth Asteroid located at about 0.25 AU from Earth?
> >
> My understanding about He3 is that it is imbedded in the deep lunar
> regolith. Which it(the regolith) was created after of billions of
> years of micro meteor impacts and also it retains it due to its
> gravity.
I did not know, that gravity is a determining factor when it comes to
enrichment of he3.
If that is the case you have successfully wrecked my reasoning :-) .
and part of the Sun
wind are the he3-particles. The shorter the distance to Sun, the more
particles would impact.
On the other hand, if those particles merge with other particles might
enrichment happen on
asteroids also? At least those merging particles are already held with
the asteroids weak gravity.