Asteroid Mining

Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Asteroid Mining

# 2500 bydsw_s@... on Oct. 2, 2005, 6:28 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03

> IIRC starting to mine the moon would require 10,000 tons on the luna
> surface - as opposed to 4,000tons in low earth orbit for an asteroid
tug.

I'm curious about other sources of information: Where do you recall
these numbers from?