>>11541946asteroids are mostly made of carbonate and iron. gold is concentrated in larger bodies. our best hopes of finding gold in the solar system are definitely earth - it's the densest planet and the most massive planet with a solid surface.
going to asteroids for gold is silly when we can just boil off boer bore water in the free state
as I mentioned, earth is dense and large. this causes issues with space transportation and is evidenced by our access to low-orbit spacecraft, impossible on lighter planets with atmospheres that spread higher from the surface. the math says quite simply that it will always be lost profits from participating in human space exploration. Maybe we should wait another 10000 years before wasting our time.
