Bruce Bostwick wrote: > > That being said, what I really wish someone would propose is sending > a robot propulsion/navigation system out to a conveniently sized > nickel/ iron asteroid, bring it home, and park it in an orbit high > enough to keep it from decaying for the foreseeable future > Great idea! All it would require was a propulsion system that does not waste fuel to change the asteroid's speed from about 50 km/s to 30 km/s in the perihelium of the transfer orbit, and it would be cheaper than launching stuff from Earth at the enormous 10 km/s speed (give or take a few km/s).
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