asteroids

It is not a matter of trapping - even asteroids which are much smaller have many more craters.

Many effects, including general relativity and the gravitational perturbations of the planets and several hundred asteroids, were included.

Even now the wild idea of mining asteroids, once relegated to science fiction, is reaching the point of feasibility.

This is not unlike eschewing seat belts because asteroids have been known to smash into the Earth.

Lots of people think of asteroids as a plot device for egg-head sci-fi fans rather than an actual existential threat.

Would it make sense to harvest asteroids for water and bring it to the moon?

That's why I'm cheering Planetary Resources and their plan to mine near-Earth asteroids for rare earth metals.

While there are ideas about platinum from asteroids or 3He from the Moon's crust, resource extraction from another planet is tremendously more expensive.

Rex was optimized for physical force, but that proved useless against asteroids.

I guess we should all go live on the asteroids where there's nothing but rock.

There are lots of asteroids filled with materials floating around.

If we're going to harvest water from asteroids, we should colonize them instead.

Similarly, the asteroid belt is "full of asteroids" that are mostly only a few meters across, with an average distance between each asteroid of a few million kilometers.

Eg, in the Lab Manual they showed some student projects where they took two computer-controlled DAC's and fed them into an oscilloscope in XY mode and made games like PacMan and Asteroids.