Timeline for What resources (especially mineral) can you find on terrestrial planets but not asteroids?
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| Jul 1, 2020 at 10:15 | answer | added | Madlozoz | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 1, 2020 at 8:53 | answer | added | Rohan | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Jun 30, 2020 at 17:03 | answer | added | Danilo | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 30, 2020 at 16:55 | comment | added | Wesley Botham | @Innovine Good question... I figured it would be in some nitrate rock form or something, but now that I'm looking into it it seems those are understood mainly to come from biological processes involving bacteria or dead seaweed? asterank.com says some asteroids have nitrogen as a resource but I can't figure out why they believe that or what form they think it is in. | |
| Jun 30, 2020 at 8:31 | answer | added | eagle275 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 29, 2020 at 20:20 | comment | added | Innovine | isnt nitrogen rare on asteroids? | |
| Jun 29, 2020 at 14:12 | answer | added | Dohn Joe | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 28, 2020 at 22:26 | answer | added | Loren Pechtel | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 28, 2020 at 17:18 | answer | added | The Square-Cube Law | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jun 28, 2020 at 16:27 | answer | added | fraxinus | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jun 28, 2020 at 15:29 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jun 28, 2020 at 15:08 | answer | added | Logan R. Kearsley | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jun 28, 2020 at 15:00 | answer | added | jamesqf | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jun 28, 2020 at 14:55 | answer | added | Rodolfo Penteado | timeline score: 27 | |
| Jun 28, 2020 at 14:26 | answer | added | Mary | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jun 28, 2020 at 13:52 | comment | added | user69935 | @notovny the tv show opal hunters mentions this as the miners are after the rare black opals and the silica collects in rocks as the water streams carry them down to settle in layers. | |
| Jun 28, 2020 at 13:38 | comment | added | notovny | Not to be discounted - The water cycle on Earth is responsible for collecting minerals into veins where they can be more easily collected en masse. (as well as being involved in making more complex minerals) In an asteroid, desirable minerals are more likely to be uniformly dissolved in the rest of the asteroid. | |
| Jun 28, 2020 at 13:25 | answer | added | John | timeline score: 29 | |
| Jun 28, 2020 at 13:14 | comment | added | John | @HenryTaylor the problem is on planets those heavy elements tend to sink to the center where it is basically impossible to extract them, while on asteroids that are easy to get to. | |
| Jun 28, 2020 at 9:01 | comment | added | Henry Taylor | I don't know if it is still considered true, but back in the stone age when I was in school, we were taught that an element's scarcity and its atomic weight are inversely related. The bigger the nucleus, the scarcer the element. If that is still true, then your asteroid miners would probably trade with Earth for the radioactive elements at the bottom of the periodic table. Those element's probably exist out in the asteroids but might be easier to acquire en-mass from large worlds with breathable atmospheres. | |
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| Jun 28, 2020 at 7:52 | comment | added | Criggie | Would "Biological products" answer the need, without having to go list a bunch like manure, ambergris, and nutmeg ? | |
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| Jun 28, 2020 at 7:33 | history | edited | Wesley Botham |
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| Jun 28, 2020 at 7:28 | history | notice added | L.Dutch♦ | Hard Science | |
| Jun 28, 2020 at 7:26 | history | asked | Wesley Botham | CC BY-SA 4.0 |