Helium 3 moprofitable from asteroids

Looks like ANTIcarrot has been frolicking on another world.

We have
-- samples of meteorites
-- mining areas on earth that are actually craters (the astrobleme
that produces Platinum Group Metals and another from which we get
Gold and Uranium - just two examples)
-- telescopic spectroscopy (we know the content of many specific
asteroids with this)
-- gamma spectroscopy (can find Uranium with this, for one thing)
-- there have been close ups of asteroids by crafts
-- NEAR actially landed gently on an asteroid and it wasn't even
designed for landing on anything

The moon is extremely low in volatiles and metals compared to
asteroids. Only the craters provide any kind of hope to moon miners
and we know how many of these originated, eh?

Helium-3 is on the moon and the asteroids, comets, rocks, and dust
particles in space.

Count on it.

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "ANTIcarrot"
wrote:
> > From: George Perkins [mailto:george@c...]
> > These people are not the dummies. They want the white paper and
> > engineering drawings and plenty expectation of profit.
>
> Plain fact is we have samples of the moon and know what it's made
from. Until you can say the same about NEOs, let alone a *specific*
NEO, they simply aren't a credible alternative. You don't build an
oil rig and tow it out to see on the off chance there might be some
oil in the general area. You have to weigh in the costs of dozens of
prospecting and survey missions for asteroid mining. The moon only
neds one survay mission, and given the extend it's already mapped
that might not even be needed.
>
> Sure in the long term asteroids are a better source of all sorts
of materials, He3 included, but in the near term the moon still has
a lot to recomend it.