An End-To-End Near-Earth Asteroid Resource Exploitation Plan

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Jan 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000srrt.conf...47r&link_type=abstract

Space Resources Roundtable II, p. 47

Mathematics

Logic

Asteroids, Crude Oil, Drilling, Exploitation, Mineral Exploration, Costs, Deposits, Drying, Geotechnical Engineering, Mining

Scientific paper

The possible end result of the utilization of raw materials garnered from near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) has been well documented if often a bit fanciful. Very few have put forward an end-to-end plan from prospecting to mine closure for any specific asteroid or for any particular asteroid resource. There are many aspects to planning for the mining of raw materials from asteroids that have never been encountered in terrestrial resource exploitation due to the dispersed nature of the asteroids. As an example from petroleum exploration, if a dry hole is drilled in a large geologic setting indicative of petroleum deposits, one only need pack the drill rig up and move it to a new spot. In asteroid exploitation, the problem of "moving to a new spot" is complicated, as the "new spot" is moving constantly and may be many millions of kilometers distant at great cost in time and rocket fuel. This paper will outline a relatively low-risk, probable high-return, end-to-end plan for the exploitation and utilization of asteroid raw materials. All aspects of exploration and mining will attempt to be addressed, from prospecting, exploration, and evaluation of possible resources to initialization, industrialization, and closure of the mine. It will attempt to plan for the acquisition of not just the needed scientific knowledge, but also to plan for acquisition of the engineering and geotechnical knowledge needed for effective mining of a small planetary object.

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