Burst 8 - Questions about Asteroid Mining

Released: 17 November 2015

Duration 6 minutes, 18 seconds

Paul Carr briefly discusses a few issues that asteroid mining raises, at least in part responding to an Unseen Podcast blog post comment by "Khani":

• Mining operations around PHAs
• Conflicts over claims
• Conflicts over the same asteroid
• What exactly is necessary to establish a claim?
• An interplanetary court

Music by Jason Robinson

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