The Eros Project
The Eros Project is accepting
sponsors, inquiries, and resumes.
Presently seeking people with these talents:
Securities Expert, Research Assistants, Sponsorship Fund Raising, Materials
Engineer, and others.
Advisor and Volunteer page
Image courtesy of NASA
Eros is a near-Earth asteroid
of significant value (estimated at $15.84 trillion). Its orbit is relatively
easy to travel to from the Earth, so the asteroid is reasonably accessible.
Size: 33 km x 13 km x 13
km
(20.5 mi x 8 mi x 8 mi)
Approximate mass: 7.2 x
10^15 kg
(79.2 trillion short tons; a short ton is 2000 pounds)
With an total mass of about
79.2 trillion short tons, it has a significant ‘futures’ value for construction
materials in space. The Eros Project will establish a futures market for these
materials.
In addition, rad-safe habitable
volume will be a very valuable commodity in Space. Solar radiation is damaging
in its intensity, outside of the Earth's protective magnetic field. As mining
occurs on Eros, the voids that are created will be ideal places for people to
live in Space. Sheltered from solar radiation by many meters of solid rock,
people will find that Eros is a desirable place to live, work, and play in the
latter part of the 21st century. A futures market will also be developed for
this prime real estate inside of Eros.
Central to the success of
the Eros Project is Orbital Development’s present ownership of the entire property.
A prime focus of the Eros Project is leveraging Orbital Development’s present
equity value of the property into development capital for the improvement of
the property.
Image courtesy of NASA
The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft
observed the elements potassium, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, oxygen, and iron.
As the spacecraft’s data continues to be evaluated, a more precise estimate
of the property's potential value will be developed.
Call for Papers
OrbDev's Eros Project is
seeking unpublished papers from the study of data from 433 Eros. For more details,
please E-mail: Send Email
Fifty Year Development
Scenario
On each pole of Eros' spin
axis, the Project will dig two large caverns. One pit will house a spinning MetroCircus
colony city, which will be the inhabited capital city of 433 Eros. The city will
be well shielded from solar radiation and be a comfortable place to live with
at least .38 gravity at the outermost living deck. In honor of his historic first
human spaceflight, the city will be named GAGARIN.
The other shielded pit will be used as a shipyard to construct hulls for additional
O'Neil cities, large oxygen tankers, and spacecraft hulls. These products will
be for sale. The shipyard will be named ARMSTRONG BAY.
Large solar concentrators will be used to smelt and refine materials. Export products
are expected to be refined magnesium, aluminum, silicon, oxygen, and iron. It
is probable that platinum, gold, iridium, and other rare earths metals will be
processed for export.
A corridor will be mined along the spin axis, which will become the main throughfare
between Gagarin and Armstrong Bay. As mining progresses, branch tunnels and caverns
will be constructed for industry, storage, and recreation.
Papers on Asteroid Mining:
Asteroid Mining
Permanant.com
Image courtesy of NASA
Discoveries About 433 Eros
26 Mar 01
It has been calculated that the diameter of a synchronous orbit around the length
of 433 Eros is almost the same as Eros' 33 kilometer length. This results in near-zero
gravity at the tips of 433 Eros, and creates an interesting "gravity gradient"
on the entire planetoid. Calculations by OrbDev's advisors show that an erosync
orbit is attained at 16.36 kilometers from the center of mass or 32.72 km in diameter.
This coincidence is an interesting anomaly and may explain why 433 Eros is one
of the most elongated asteroid known and may give clues to the underlying structure
and history of Eros.
Published News about 433
Eros
12 FEB 01 - LANDING DAY
Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory
Eros Owner declares February 12th a holiday on 433 Eros, "FIRST CONTACT"
04 APR 01
Cornell
University News
Cornell cosmologist Thomas Gold revives old debate about moon to explain movement
of dust into craters of asteroid Eros . Static electricity, he argues, causes
dust grains to levitate downhill into the bottom of craters.
19 APR 01
Space.com
News
Condensed News.
ErosDaily.com
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