Asteroid use Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Asteroid use
# 321 byqwerty172@... on Jan. 5, 2001, 6:10 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
Does anyone realize how big a 1 kilometer in diameter rock is?
Its equal to about a decades worth of mining on earth. The first
asteroid to be brought into earth orbit will be the last one for many
decades.
The AMES study, weighed in a standford torus at 2x10^6 MT. That means
one asteroid could build 2500 standord torii.
The first asteroids we serious look at will be earth grazers 20-50 m
in diameters.
If anyone has some romantic idea of prospector ships scouring the
solar system and bringing back rocks, dream on.
Bill