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  • April 16, 2020
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The World Is Not Ready for Asteroid Mining, But It Needs To Be

Matthew R. Francis for DSM Observer Nothing is less “deep sea” than an asteroid, yet parallels exist between these two domains, particularly when it comes to resource extraction. Asteroids are debris left over from the formation of the Solar System roughly 4.5 billion years ago. Due to our shared origin, Earth and asteroids contain the […]

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