{"id":76077,"date":"2018-02-19T08:42:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T16:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/asteroid-miners-might-need-a-few-good-applied-astronomers-to-show-them-the-way"},"modified":"2018-02-22T15:03:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T23:03:12","slug":"asteroid-miners-might-need-a-few-good-applied-astronomers-to-show-them-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/asteroid-miners-might-need-a-few-good-applied-astronomers-to-show-them-the-way","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid miners might need a few good applied astronomers to show them the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ydgrFa3_MCs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Mining asteroids for water and other resources could someday become a trillion-dollar business, but not without astronomers to point the way.<\/p>\n<p>At least that\u2019s the view of <a href=\"http:\/\/hea-www.harvard.edu\/~elvis\/\">Martin Elvis<\/a>, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who\u2019s been taking a close look at the science behind asteroid mining.<\/p>\n<p>If the industry ever takes off the way ventures such as Redmond, Wash.-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetaryresources.com\/\">Planetary Resources<\/a> and California-based <a href=\"http:\/\/deepspaceindustries.com\/\">Deep Space Industries<\/a> hope, \u201cthat opens up new employment opportunities for astronomers,\u201d Elvis said today in Austin at the annual meeting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaas.org\/\">American Association for the Advancement of Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2018\/asteroid-miners-might-need-good-applied-astronomers-show-way\/amp\/?__twitter_impression=true\">https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2018\/asteroid-miners-might-need-goo...ssion=true<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Mining asteroids for water and other resources could someday become a trillion-dollar business, but not without astronomers to point the way. At least that\u2019s the view of Martin Elvis, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who\u2019s been taking a close look at the science behind asteroid mining. If the industry [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1878,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-employment","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76226,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76077\/revisions\/76226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}