pscowen

how are you going to tell what the composition of each target asteroid will be, remotely? how accurate do you expect external spectroscopic analysis to be? or is the point to land "samplers" on the asteroid to find out - and how reliable will the surface composition be with regards to the rest of the asteroid (space weathering etc.)?

do you think it unfortunate that the URL for this AMA has the string identifier "we_are_engineers_from_planetary_resources_we_quit" ??