Asteroid Mining 101: Wealth for the New Space Economy by John Lewis

Asteroid Mining 101: Wealth for the New Space Economy by John Lewis

Author:John Lewis [Lewis, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Asteroid Mining, Asteroids, Engineering, Mining, Non-Fiction, Science, Spaceflight, Space
ISBN: 9780990584209
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Amazon: 0990584208
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Publisher: WaveCloud Corporation
Published: 2014-07-22T23:00:00+00:00


Figure VI.1 This image of the crater Aelia on the proto-planet 4 Vesta was created by assigning ratios of color information from several color filters in visible and near-infrared light to reveal flow structures, possibly made by liquid material created at the impact.

Credit: NASA – Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Taxonomy of the Belt

Of the seven largest asteroids, five are very dark and apparently carbonaceous in nature. The outer half of the Belt is dominated by C, D and P asteroids, suggesting that about two thirds of the mass of the Belt is volatile-rich dark material.



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