Asteroid Mining - High profits from space: plenty of valuable metals

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Asteroid mining refers to the exploitation process of raw materials, such as minerals and volatiles, found in asteroids and other near-Earth objects including meteoroids and near-Earth comets. Though mining and processing an asteroid is characterized to be a very difficult operation due to weightlessness conditions on one hand, and highly expensive on the other hand, a group of Silicon Valley high-tech tycoons, such as Google Inc executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt together with filmmaker James Cameron have announced their plans to extract rare and precious metals from near-Earth asteroids. To find out more about asteroid mining process, its pluses and minuses read this book.

Product details

• Assisted by: Edward R. Miller-Jones (Editor), Edwar R Miller-Jones (Editor)
• Publisher: FastBook Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.05.2012
• EAN: 9786130131555
• ISBN: 978-613-0-13155-5
• No. of pages: 100
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 220 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 168 g
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy