this is a good representation of what I have learned this month.
 http://www.shackletonenergy.com/  

this is an email that I received from Michael Bazzocci a scientist at the university of Toronto that studies outer space mining.


Hi Sophia!

Thank you for your well written and detailed email! I'm glad you reached out to me because your project is literally the focus of much of my research. 

It seems like you have quite the project ahead of you! I have attached a couple interesting websites that might help you get started:

- http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ (NASA -- there are more NASA/ESA sites I can send you if you are interested)

- http://deepspaceindustries.com/  (Private company)

- http://www.shackletonenergy.com/ (Private company)

- http://www.planetaryresources.com/ (Private company)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining (Pretty good overview of the main themes)

You are more than welcome to send me a list of questions or give me a phone call, also, considering that you also need to build a model, you are welcome to visit my lab at the University of Toronto to get some ideas. While we don't have much space mining equipment (most of my research is conceptual and theoretical, less experimental), we do have a few robots, wind tunnels, and a flight simulator.

Good luck with your project and I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Michael

blog post #1

This week i have been researching different asteroids that would be ideal for mining.  The 1986DA asteroid is the one that i think would be best for mining.  this asteroid has 90 billion dollars of gold and 5 trillion us dollars worth of platinum.  this profit doses not include the iron and nickle on this asteroid as well.  lots of scientists are interested in the 1986AD.  they are proposing a plan to attach a device to the asteroid and brig it closer so we can mine it.  Michael Bazzocchi and his team are currently working on this and i will be interviewing him.