Asteroid Mining
The solar system contains many different types of asteroids,groupedby the minerals they contain. The abundances of preciousmetals suchas nickel, iron, and titanium (to name a few), andwater makeasteroids an attractive target for mining operationswhen humansdecide to expand their presence through interplanetaryspace. Forexample, water from asteroids could serve colonies inspace, whilethe minerals and metals would be used to buildhabitats and growfood for future space colony inhabitants.Beginning 2013, companiesinterested in asteroid mining beganannouncing their plans forfuture operations on distant planetoids.In addition, NASA islooking into similar missions. The biggestobstacles to asteroidmining are the need to develop affordablespaceflight technologythat would allow humans to get to theasteroids of interest.

Asteroid Vesta
Asteroids
Asteroids are small, rocky solar system bodies thatpopulateinterplanetary space out to the orbit of Jupiter. Therearemillions of them, and they are often grouped by theircomposition.The planetary …Read more

Facts About The Asteroid Belt
What other fascinating things do we know about theAsteroidBelt?

Asteroid Belt objects are made of rock and stone. Some aresolidobjects, while others are orbiting “rubble piles”.
The Asteroid Belt contains billions and billions ofasteroids.
Some asteroids in the Belt are quite large, but most range insizedown to pebbles.
The asteroid 1/Ceres is also designated as a dwarf planet,thelargest one in the inner solar system.
We know of at least 7,000 asteroids.
The Asteroid Belt may contain many objects, but they are spreadoutover a huge area of space. This has allowed spacecraft tomovethrough this region without hitting anything.
Asteroids get their names from suggestions by their discoverersandare also given a number.
The formation of Jupiter disrupted the formation of any worldsinthe Asteroid Belt region by scattering asteroids away. Thiscausedthem to collide and break into smaller pieces.
Gravitational influences can move asteroids out of the Belt.
The Asteroid Belt is often referred to as the “Main Belt”todistinguish it from other groups of asteroids such astheLagrangians and Centaurs.

What is the asteroid belt?

The asteroid belt is a region of space between the orbits ofMarsand Jupiter where most of the asteroids in our Solar Systemarefound orbiting the Sun. The asteroid belt probably containsmillionsof asteroids. Astronomers think that the asteroid belt ismade up ofmaterial that was never able to form into a planet, orof theremains of a planet which broke apart a very long time ago.Theasteroids in the asteroid belt come in a variety of sizes. Somearevery small (less than a mile across), while others are quitelarge.The largest asteroid is called Ceres. It is aboutone-quarter thesize of our moon. It is a dwarf planet.

It was 2029 and the Apophis asteroid was due to pass earth.NASAkept tabs on it's trajectory, a green blip on a black screen.Onemoment it was on a path to pass causing no harm, the next itwasheading right for Earth at increased velocity. The controlroomrebooted the system, obviously there was an error, but thenthesatellites picked it up too...

The asteroid hit earth with enough force to send the oceansintospace, leaving our home-world obliterated worse than weeverachieved. We had saved our mother earth from our own greed onlytosee her destroyed by a rock too large for us to stop. I thinkitwas then that we took living in an augmented reality seriously -achance to live on Earth again like she was in her hey-day.