Why should we go to the Asteroid
Belt? And did you know there are multiple groups of Asteroids in the
Solar System? Also, how would we mine them, what would we find, and how
would we live?
First of all, why is the title of this book
about mining Asteroid Belts? When we learned about the Asteroid Belt
when studying the Solar System in school there was only one Asteroid
Belt. The one in orbit between Mars and Jupiter.
With the discovery of the Trojan Asteroids in Jovian orbit and in orbit
ahead and behind of the planet Jupiter, we now have more than one belt
of asteroids around the Sun. If we include the Kuiper Belt out beyond
Pluto, there are many additional thousands of asteroids to consider.
There are also near Earth Asteroids which orbit close to and sometimes
hit our planet.
So there are many thousands of Asteroids in the Solar System and this
book is focused on how do we get to them, live on them, and mine them.
There are several known types of Asteroids, and the metal ones have the
most promise to provide rare materials to fuel Earth’s
industries. Also, how would these metals be processed and sent back to
Earth?
What would traveling to and living on Asteroids be like? And what life
support systems would be needed?
Asteroid
Smelter
The Table
of Contents
1.0
Introduction
2.0 What is the Asteroid Belt?
2.2 The Major Asteroids
2.3 Trojans & Greeks
2.4 Near Earth Asteroids
3.0 Valuable Materials from Asteroids
4.0 Transportation to the Belt
4.1 Months Long Journeys
4.2 Nuclear Thermal Rockets
4.3 Concerns on the Trip to the Asteroid
Belt
5.0 Spaceship Systems
6.0 Proposed Mining Projects &
Companies
7.0 Mining the Belt
7.1 Mining considerations
7.2 Robotic Mining
8.0 Living in the Asteroid Belt
8.1 Building a Ceres Colony
8.1.1 Examples in Fiction:
8.1.2 Possible Methods:
8.1.3 Potential Benefits:
8.1.4 Challenges:
8.2 Individuals Prospecting in the Belt
9.0 Asteroid Mining Commercialization
9.1 Proposed Mining Projects
9.2 Processing Asteroid Metals
9.2.1 Materials Processing in Space
9.2.3 Using Solar Power in Space
9.2.4 3D-Printing in Space
10.0 Looking Ahead 100-500 Years
11.0 Summary
12.0 Bibliography
13.0 Index
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