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    The Benefits Of Asteroids

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    synopsis: An evil man plans to mine gold and other precious metals from asteroids to fund his worldwide domination. A team of skilled military trained astronauts will have to find a way to stop him. The countries of the world have to band together to find to prevent this from happening again. The story will include asteroid mining, 3D printing, water powered space craft, space weaponry, using radar and IR cameras to determine asteroid composition, and others. The story follows the actions of the villain

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    Asteroid Impact Asteroids are rocky objects that move in the “asteroid belt”, which is between the orbit of Mars and Jupiter. Asteroids vary in size, composition, and how they orbit. It is estimated that more than 100,000 asteroids are orbiting too close to the earth. Asteroid impacts have affected the Earth remarkably with great damage. Hopefully these impacts will not be as bad in the future. Clemens Rumpf from University of Southampton, and his associates, speculated the casualties from

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    should fund Asteroids studies? I claim yes, we should fund asteroids studies. Also the asteroids could give us safety outside of the earth, gain resources, and learn space. These are going to be opportunities to get asteroids and get rare minerals from the asteroids. Those are the reasons I’m going I claiming that we should let NASA ( National Aeronautics and space Administration) should fund Asteroids studies. This reason of NASA should fund Asteroids studies is safety. Asteroids are studied

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    The majority of people know that a large asteroid was accountable for the annihilation of roughly seventy percent of all life on Earth sixty-five million years ago, which seems so long ago that it is not really a concern for life now; however, there are an estimated one million asteroids that are orbiting the Sun right now and we can only account for one percent of them. So, that means that there are about nine hundred and ninety thousand other asteroids that we do not know much about that can potentially

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    Getting to Know Asteroids

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    Asteroids are a very fascinating part of our solar system. Asteroids are classified as small airless rocky worlds revolving around the sun. Since asteroids are too small, they have not been called planets during the time of their existence. The larger asteroids are known as planetoids or minor planets. Asteroids as a whole, their mass does not even come close to the mass of the Earths moon. This could be a reason why they have not been known as planets. Although asteroids can be seen in any part

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    .the debris behind these streaks of light, meteoroids, are impending doom. Asteroids are normally portrayed as the compacted piles of rubble bringing forth the catastrophic commencement of the apocalypse in films like **Ice, **Meteor Storm, **Armageddon, etc. After all, there are a couple of theories to how one of the earliest global disasters had occurred; **the mass extinction of prehistoric animals, and an asteroid or comet crash being one of the most popular among these theories. This concept

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    Asteroids Essay

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    Asteroids In our solar system today there are over 30,000 asteroids flying around in all direction colliding with other asteroids and planets, without a care about the destruction they might convey. Our planet Earth is caught right in the middle of all of this action and is liable to entire extinction of any life forms on the planet if a large enough asteroid crosses its path. Any single asteroid has the possibility to erase thousands of years of history and wipeout the human race, as we know it

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    5th Hour Dev. of Cause/Effect /60 Asteroid Mining and the Economy of the Future Asteroids. Commonly thought of as a natural doomsday device, these hunks of space rock clutter the solar system by the millions. Many give the asteroids credit for all sorts of cataclysmic events such as the extinction of the dinosaurs. Others claim the asteroids can cause cataclysmic events such as the extinction of humankind. Amidst these fears lie a truth: Asteroids are interplanetary gold-mines, filled to

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    Mining asteroids for resources interests me because I would consider myself as a heavy consumer of electronic goods such as smartphones and computers and therefore I am keen to know about the future of this technology. At the beginning of my IGCSE Global Perspectives course, we looked at natural resources which I think also contributed to my decision to look into this topic. I would like to be more aware of how much resources currently remain on Earth because the media constantly reports on how little

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    fund asteroid studies that other people lead? In my opinion, I think that NASA should fund other asteroid studies because if we are trying to go to Mars, then we need all the extra help we can get. If we have many people exploring and learning space, then we can find more about space, maybe go to Mars earlier than we thought, and be more prepared. NASA should fund asteroid studies because of our safety, resources, and our competitiveness and currency in the world. If NASA funds asteroid studies

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