Marrying asteroid defense and asteroid mining

--- Robert wrote:

> considering that the largest asteroid would have an
> escape velocity of feet per second, i don't think
> that is really a problem, nor really matter if it
> does not (IMHO).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Ceres
The escape velocity from Ceres is 510 m/s, almost 1700
feet per second.

Ed