Is asteroid mining a dumb idea?

You might have heard about asteroids that are worth billions or even trillions of dollars, because they have lots of valuable resources like gold and platinum. So it’s only logical that people would want to get those resources. But is it actually a good idea and is it even possible?

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00:00 - Intro
02:47 - What's there on asteroids
7:43 - How do we know it?
17:43 - How to mine
25:20 - Actual companies

Sources
Asteroid types
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroid...
Asteroid values
http://www.asterank.com/
Composition
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/abou...
Osiris-Rex
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/na...
HED meteorites
https://meteorites.asu.edu/achondrite...
NEOs
https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/about/neo_...
Asteroid redirect mission
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/ast...
Laws
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/...
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/20...
Economics
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/18...
Companies
https://asteroidminingcorporation.co.uk/
https://www.transastracorp.com/apis-s...
MIT review
https://www.technologyreview.com/2019...
Mining
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.05099.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://oxfordre.com/planetaryscience...
https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?f...
https://calhoun.nps.edu/bitstream/han...
Planetary resources
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.108...
https://www.space.com/39363-planetary...
https://www.consensys.space/
DSI
https://www.space.com/42906-deep-spac...
Physics of mining
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/art...