<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 3:37 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I think that for asteroid mining, Apophis should be a priority. It is <br>
scheduled to pass uncomfortably close to Earth in 2029 and there is a <br>
chance that the close approach will nudge into a subsequent collision <br>
course with Earth. So any minerals we get from it would be a bonus to <br>
not havinbg to worry about it.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What would it take to nudge Apophis from "might impact Earth later" into a stable orbit around the Earth, or perhaps the Moon (and thus around the Earth)? </div></div></div>