Lewis J.S. Asteroid Mining 101: Wealth for the New Space

Deep Space Industries Inc., 2015. — 162 p. — ISBN10: 0990584208The emerging asteroid mining industry has extremely ambitious intentions. It is within the realm of possibility that their work may usher in a change in global economics as profound as the Industrial Revolution. As may be expected, press reports dealing with asteroid mining have been numerous, ranging in scope from short and breezy to broad and serious, and in quality from accurate to impressionistic to simply uninformed. There is good reason to be curious about what may be the biggest game-changer in human economic history. And there is good reason to look closely at the underlying science and engineering that form the foundation of this work.The Solar System: Complex and Overlapping
Breakthroughs in Asteroid Prospecting
Meteorites: Poor Man’s Space Probes
Meteorite–Asteroid Connections: NEA Sources and Fate
Near–Earth Asteroid
Belt Asteroid
Asteroid Resources
Asteroid Mining and Processing
The Long View