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

The main asteroid belt is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and is 2.3 to 3.3 astronomical units away from the sun. They are considered to be residual materials that failed to aggregate during the formation of the solar system and were disturbed by the gravity of Jupiter.

The scale of asteroids ranges from hundreds of kilometers to micrometers.With the exception of the largest Ceres, all asteroids are classified as small celestial bodies in the solar system, but there are a few asteroids, such as Vesta and Jianshen, if it can be confirmed that they have reached hydrostatic equilibrium, it may be Will be reclassified as a dwarf planet.

There are tens of thousands of asteroid belts, possibly as many as millions of small objects with a diameter of more than one kilometer.Nevertheless, the total mass of the asteroid belt is still unlikely to reach one thousandth of the Earth's mass.

At first glance, this number seems to be very few, but you may not notice how heavy the earth we live on. The mass of the earth is 5.965×10^24kg, which is 60 trillion tons. Even if the asteroid belt is The total weight is only one ten thousandth of the earth, and its mass is 6 billion tons!

And with the technology that we humans currently master, most of the materials inside can be used. Think about how much benefit there is!

The asteroid belt contains two main types of asteroids.At the outer edge of the asteroid belt, close to Jupiter's orbit, are dominated by carbon-rich C-type asteroids, which account for more than 75% of the total.

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

The importance of ice for space exploration is not to say that everyone knows that even if only one ice asteroid is pulled to Mars, it can provide a source of life for the future Mars colony, which is more expensive than a long voyage. The price is much better to send so little water from the earth to Mars. After all, only with enough water can the real colony be maintained!

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

This indicates that they are significantly different from the composition of the original solar system, which may be the result of differentiation due to the early melting mechanism of the solar system.Compared to C-type asteroids, these asteroids have a high reflectivity.It accounts for about 17% of the entire asteroid belt.

There is also a third type of asteroid, which accounts for about 10% of M-type asteroids.Their spectrum contains iron-nickel-like lines that appear white or slightly red, without the characteristics of absorption lines.

The M-type asteroid is presumed to be formed by the core with iron-nickel as the main matrix after a devastating impact.In the main belt, M-type asteroids are mainly distributed in the orbit of the semi-major diameter 2.7 astronomical units.

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

If we compare the resources of the universe to a large supermarket, the weight of the earth can only be regarded as the size of breadcrumbs.The old US National Aeronautics and Space Administration has estimated that if the mineral wealth accumulated on the asteroids in the asteroid belt is evenly distributed to the 6 billion people on earth, each person can get more than 100 billion US dollars.

A website called "Planet Ranking" evaluated the value of 580,000 known asteroids.Among them, the highest valuation is "241 Germania", the value of the above mineral resources is as high as 95.8 trillion US dollars, which is almost the same as last year's global GDP!

And these valuable things are there to seduce. Infinite Gravity Group is not the first company that wants to work on them. There are many companies in the world that have planned to travel to asteroids to bring out these resources. It’s just thinking about it, the technical strength can’t be reached, think about it!

Even if the Infinite Gravity Group already has this plan, it really takes at least a few years to prepare for the first asteroid belt mining plan. It takes a long time to detect the asteroid belt alone, and there are options later. The right asteroid and the technique to pull it near Mars or the moon need to be step-by-step.

In the event of an error that causes the asteroid's orbit to align with the Earth, the fun will be greater, so even if such resources are to be exploited, there are many things to consider.

Of course, the economic benefits and significance of the infinite gravity group space program are extraordinary. This step is also necessary for the company.

As far as the basic carrying capacity is concerned, even if the rocket carrying capacity of the infinite gravity group is doubled in the future, the weight of the materials that can be transported into space at a time will not exceed 200 tons.

The cost of transporting these materials is at least US$30 million, with an average of US$150,000 per ton. This is the price of Infinite Gravity Group's own internal price. You have nothing to say about the external quotation of US$300 million!

And how many asteroids dominated by metals in the asteroid belt?At least 100,000!Even if the weight is more than 100,000 tons, there are 10,000 upwards!

Not to mention other metals, as far as the most common iron asteroids are concerned, it is not a problem to have at least 50,000 tons of iron asteroids with a weight of 10,000 tons after smelting, not counting the value of so much other iron. At least there can be 200 million, it seems that this money is not much.

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

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

It doesn't matter if money is not money, after all, even if it is 7.5 billion US dollars, the current capital of Infinite Gravity Group will pass, but the cost of time must also be considered, even if it is a 200-ton launch, 50,000-ton 250 launches, 2 launches a day, it will take 125 days to launch!4 months!!!