Asteroid miners could use Earth’s atmosphere to catch space rocks 17SEP2018

Asteroid miners could use Earth’s atmosphere to catch space rocks

Asteroid miners could use Earth’s atmosphere to
catch space rocks By Joshua Rapp, Science, Aug. 29, 2018
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/08/asteroid-miners-could-use-earth-s-atmosphere-catch-space-rocks

I love the caption to the article's illustration.

" Engineers have come up with a plan to purposefully
steer asteroids into Earth’s atmosphere and mine them
for resources in orbit. What could possibly go wrong?"

Yours,

Paul H.