Asteroid Mining - moon vs asteroids

From: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Xenophile

> Is it possible that astroidal material is *already at* L4 or L5?

I do happen to know that SSI gave some money to an astronomy student who
for his thesis wanted to do telescopic observations of L4 and L5 for
trapped material. I never heard anything to the effect that he didn't
get to make his observations, and I'm sure if he'd discovered anything
there would have been lots of discussion about it.

An open question would be at what level of detection would his
observations have operated at. In other words, even if we can rule out
asteroidal bodies a city block in size, can we not rule out bodies the
size of apartment buildings? Even bodies the size of houses might be
useful from our standpoint.

Regards,

Mike Combs