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Old 01-22-2018, 05:11 PM   #871 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4 View Post
Don't have to go to the asteroid belt.
There are at least 100 of them that cross earth's orbit and large enough to sterilize the planet if they were to impact.
So what do you do? Put a mining colony on it to self sustain while it goes round until it comes back again several years later and shoot the spoils back to earth at the next near crossing?
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Gaining the energy to alter the trajectory so as to "park" an asteroid in any different orbit is another one of those ideas that don't even come close to adding up if you run the numbers. Not happening.

 
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