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Originally Posted by cmac2012
I was sorta leaning that way. I have a hard time imagining how the matter that asteroids are made up could be THAT much different from the matter that composes this planet. We're a large collection of many asteroids, after all, best I can tell.
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IIRC, most of the asteroids close to us are iron/nickel, in a pretty refined form. Hence the idea that some have had of mining asteroids. Not really economical now for iron/nickel, but maybe so if there were some pure gold or platinum
. Lots of SF stories about that.