{"id":91976,"date":"2019-06-12T12:42:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T19:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/asteroid-mining-not-a-million-miles-away"},"modified":"2019-06-12T12:42:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T19:42:29","slug":"asteroid-mining-not-a-million-miles-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/asteroid-mining-not-a-million-miles-away","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid mining not a million miles away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/asteroid-mining-not-a-million-miles-away3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Work by a team of University of Adelaide scientists to perfect metal and mineral extraction processes is bringing the possibility of mining the wealth contained within asteroids closer to reality. But science fiction won\u2019t become fact until asteroid mining becomes economically as well as technically viable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsteroids such as Bennu are closer to us than Adelaide is to Alice Springs, about 1000 kilometres away in Earth\u2019s near orbit,\u201d says Professor Volker Hessel, Deputy Dean-Research from the University of Adelaide\u2019s Faculty of Engineering, Computer &amp; Mathematical Sciences (ECMS) and Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdvances in space exploration mean that these bodies which contain nickel, cobalt, and platinum as well as water and organic matter, are now within reach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-06-asteroid-million-miles.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work by a team of University of Adelaide scientists to perfect metal and mineral extraction processes is bringing the possibility of mining the wealth contained within asteroids closer to reality. But science fiction won\u2019t become fact until asteroid mining becomes economically as well as technically viable. \u201cAsteroids such as Bennu are closer to us than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,2229,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-mathematics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91976","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=91976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}