Asteroid mining

This area of this site is to learn about, teach about, and research asteroid mining.

Degrees in mining engineering are offered at some universities.

## Discussion questions

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* How can desirable asteroids be identified?
* How can asteroid mining benefit all of humanity?

## Learning resources

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* Search for Asteroid mining at Wikiversity

### Readings at Wikipedia

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* Asteroid mining
* Colonization of Ceres
* Mining engineering
* Asteroid capture

## See also

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* Lunar Boom Town
* Martian Boom Town
* Mining
* Business
* Futurism

## External links

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* Asteroid mining on Reddit (406 subscribers, Jan 2017)
* A possible new future alternative to land mining \- paper at MIT
* Precious metals in peril: Can asteroid mining save us? \- article @ Harvard
* Could asteroid mining become a space Gold Rush? \- article @ University of Alabama

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