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Company aims to mine resource-rich asteroids

http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com

The company Planetary Resources plans to develop and launch a series of robotic systems and unmanned spacecraft, starting with its Arkyd-100 Earth-orbiting space telescopes that it hopes to launch by the end of 2013 to identify candidate near-Earth asteroids containing natural resources. A single 500-meter platinum-rich asteroid would have the equivalent of all the platinum-group metals ever mined on Earth, the company said. And the right 80-meter asteroid would have more than $100 billion worth of materials, Anderson said.

Planetary Resources said commercial enterprises like this one can do things that governments can't: build multiple, simple spacecraft at relatively low cost...

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