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? My video on Mars One https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNu4mAsqS8M 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/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/asteroids/in-depth/ Asteroid values http://www.asterank.com/ Composition http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/72-our-solar-system/comets-meteors-and-asteroids/asteroids/295-how-are-asteroid-compositions-and-classifications-determined-intermediate Osiris-Rex https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-osiris-rex-successfully-stows-sample-of-asteroid-bennu HED meteorites https://meteorites.asu.edu/achondrites/hed-meteorites NEOs https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/about/neo_groups.html Asteroid redirect mission https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/asteroid-redirect-robotic-mission-arrm Laws https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/738/1/012014/pdf https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/06/asteroid-mining-space-minerals-legal-issues https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2011/2011.03369.pdf Economics https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1810/1810.03836.pdf Companies https://asteroidminingcorporation.co.uk/ https://www.transastracorp.com/apis-spacecraft MIT review https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/06/26/134510/asteroid-mining-bubble-burst-history/ Mining https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.05099.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0273117720304142?via%3Dihub https://oxfordre.com/planetaryscience/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190647926.001.0001/acrefore-9780190647926-e-13 https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=8882371&fileOId=8884121 https://calhoun.nps.edu/bitstream/handle/10945/67738/21Jun_Ho_Kenny.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Planetary resources https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/space.2013.0013 https://www.space.com/39363-planetary-resources-asteroid-mining-satellite-launches.html https://www.consensys.space/ DSI https://www.space.com/42906-deep-space-industries-acquired-by-bradford-space.html Physics of mining https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article/54/5/5.10/249823