[meteorite-list] Asteroid miners could use Earth’s atmosphere to catch space rocks

From: Paul <etchplain_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 16:31:55 -0500
Message-ID: <9f055624-9704-a5ce-e90c-de1cfc9c86f3_at_att.net>

Asteroid miners could use Earth?s atmosphere to
catch space rocks By Joshua Rapp, Science, Aug. 29, 2018
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/08/asteroid-miners-could-use-earth-s-atmosphere-catch-space-rocks

I love the caption to the article's illustration.

" Engineers have come up with a plan to purposefully
steer asteroids into Earth?s atmosphere and mine them
for resources in orbit. What could possibly go wrong?"

Yours,

Paul H.
Received on Sun 16 Sep 2018 05:31:55 PM PDT