[ExI] Mining the Sky SL Talk I gave today

[spike]

	Subject: Re: [ExI] Mining the Sky SL Talk I gave today
	
	
	spike wrote: 


		Samantha do you have a reference which gives the Atens'
angle to the plane?
		Did you have in mind sending actual proles out there?
		  


	On probes
	
	PERMANENT - Asteroids Near Earth - Probes
<http://www.permanent.com/a-probes.htm>    
	
	is a start.  The Eros probe was the only one that I know
successfully collected samples from an asteroid...	- samantha
	
	
	
Thanks, I found one that said one of the Atens was at an inclination of 18
degrees.
 
I realize that the term proles looks like a typo for probes but I did mean
proles in this case.  I mighta misunderstood what you meant earlier; it
sounded like you meant to send actual proles to wield cutting torches and
such, but you mighta meant doing that with robots.

Regarding the earth-grazers, if they come close to earth, it doesn't mean
their velocity is close to ours, which makes them still far away.  On the
other hand, I recall now that we discussed this matter several years ago,
and Harvey Newstrom was involved.  There is an asteroid that is closely
matched to the earth in both perigee and apogee, and is in fact orbit locked
to earth.  I need to look up and find out which one or ones that was.

spike