I Have a Little Black Hole

He also understands that more detectors need to be launched in the future. If you want to gain benefits, you should not invest in the early stage. It is right to pour a lot of money into it, because these investments will bring huge benefits to the company in the future. Payback!

Where is the asteroid belt? Asteroids are the most important members of the small celestial bodies in the solar system, mainly composed of rocks and non-volatile substances.

The main asteroid belt lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, 2.3 to 3.3 AU from the Sun, and is thought to be the remnants of Jupiter's gravitational perturbation that failed to coalesce during the formation of the solar system.

Asteroids range in size from as large as hundreds of kilometers to as small as microns. All asteroids, except the largest Ceres, are classified as small solar system bodies, but there are several asteroids, such as Vesta and Hygiene, if they can be confirmed to have reached a state of hydrostatic equilibrium, they may Will be reclassified as a dwarf planet.

The asteroid belt contains tens of thousands, possibly millions, of small celestial bodies over one kilometer in diameter. Nevertheless, the total mass of the asteroid belt is still unlikely to reach one thousandth of the mass of Earth.

At first glance, this number seems to be very small, but everyone may not usually notice the weight of the earth we live in. The mass of the earth is 5.965×10^24kg, which is 60 trillion tons, and the asteroid belt is even The total weight is only 1/10,000 of the earth, so its mass is also 6 billion billion tons!

And with the technology we humans currently have, most of the substances in it can be used, think about how much benefit there is!

The asteroid belt contains two main types of asteroids. On the outer edge of the asteroid belt, close to the orbit of Jupiter, C-type asteroids rich in carbon are dominated, and such asteroids account for more than 75% of the total.

Compared with other asteroids, they are reddish in color and have very low albedo. Their surface composition is similar to that of carbon meteorites. The chemical composition and spectral characteristics are all in the early state of the solar system, but they lack some lighter and volatile substances. Like ice!

Not to mention the importance of ice to space exploration, everyone knows that even pulling an icy asteroid to Mars can provide a source of life for future Mars colonies, which is far more expensive than a long voyage. It would be much better to send a little water from the earth to Mars, after all, only with enough water can the real colonization be sustained!

The inner part of the asteroid belt, 2.5 AU from the sun, is more common with silicon-containing S-type asteroids. The spectrum shows that its surface contains silicates and some metals, but the composition of carbonaceous compounds is not obvious.

This suggests that they are significantly different from the composition of the original solar system, possibly as a result of differentiation due to the melting mechanism of the early solar system. Relative to C-type asteroids, such asteroids have high reflectivity. About 17% of the entire population of the asteroid belt.

There is a third class of asteroids, which make up about 10% of the M-type asteroids. Their spectra contain iron-nickel-like lines, appearing white or slightly red, without characteristic absorption lines.

M-type asteroids are speculated to be formed by a destructive impact with an iron-nickel core as the parent body. In the main belt, M-type asteroids are mainly distributed in orbits with a semimajor radius of 2.7 AU.

These asteroids are the enviable existence. What is the most valuable thing in space? It must be these metallic substances!

If the resources of the universe are compared to a large supermarket, the weight of the earth can only be regarded as the size of bread crumbs. The old American National Aeronautics and Space Administration once estimated that if the mineral wealth contained in the asteroids in the asteroid belt is equally distributed to the 6 billion people on the earth, each person can share more than 100 billion US dollars.

A website called Planet Rankings has assessed the value of 580,000 known asteroids. Among them, the most valued one is 241 Germania, and the value of the mineral resources above is as high as 95.8 trillion US dollars, which is similar to last year's global GDP!

And these valuable things are there to tempt,

The Infinite Gravity Group is not the first company that wants to do something with them. There are many companies in the world who have planned to go to asteroids to mine these resources, but at present, they are just thinking about it, and the technical strength is not up to it. Think for nothing!

Even if the Infinite Gravity Group already has this plan, if you really want to complete the first asteroid belt mining plan, you will have to prepare for at least a few years. It will take a long time to detect the asteroid belt alone, and there are still options later. The right asteroid and what technology to use to pull it near Mars or the moon all need to be done step by step.

If there is a mistake and the asteroid's orbit is aligned with the earth, the fun will be great, so even if you want to engage in such resource mining, there are many things to consider.

Of course, the economic benefits here and the significance to the Infinite Gravity Group's space program are extraordinary, and this step must be taken by the company.

Taking the most basic carrying capacity as an example, even if the rocket carrying capacity of the Infinite Gravity Group is doubled in the future, the weight of materials that can be transported to space at one time will not exceed 200 tons.

The cost of transporting these materials is at least 30 million US dollars, with an average of 150,000 US dollars per ton. This is still the internal price of Infinite Gravity Group. You can’t talk about 300 million US dollars in external quotations!

And how many metal-dominated asteroids are there in the asteroid belt? At least 100,000 pieces! There are at least 10,000 pieces weighing more than 100,000 tons!

Not to mention other metals, take the most common iron asteroid as an example, it is not a problem to have at least 50,000 tons of iron asteroids weighing 10,000 tons after smelting, not counting so much other iron, its value There can be at least 200 million, it seems that this money is not much.

But the value of these irons is not calculated like this, it depends on where the iron is, it is very cheap on earth, but it will cost a lot of money to send them to space!

Even if the Infinite Gravity Group wants to transport these 50,000 tons of iron from the earth to space, it will cost at least 7.5 billion US dollars! Not to mention other countries or companies, it may not be possible to complete this launch mission with 50 billion US dollars!

It doesn't matter if it is money or not. After all, even if it is 7.5 billion US dollars, it will be over with the current capital of Infinite Gravity Group, but the time cost must also be considered. 250 launches, 2 launches a day, it will take 125 days to complete the launch! 4 months! ! !

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