Ebook: Asteroid Mining 101: Wealth for the New Space Economy

John Lewis, renowned author of popular science books, Rain of Iron and Ice, and Mining the Sky: Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets and Planets, has released his newest publication, Asteroid Mining 101: Wealth for a New Space Economy. Considered to be the worlds’ foremost expert on Asteroids and Near Earth Objects, Dr. Lewis has created this comprehensive guide to Asteroid Mining.

The emerging asteroid mining industry has extremely ambitious intentions. It is within the realm of possibility that their work may usher in a change in global economics as profound as the Industrial Revolution.

As may be expected, press reports dealing with asteroid mining have been numerous, ranging in scope from short and breezy to broad and serious, and in quality from accurate to impressionistic to simply uninformed.

There is good reason to be curious about what may be the biggest game-changer in human economic history. And there is good reason to look closely at the underlying science and engineering that form the foundation of this work.

“Almost everything that I care about most can be found within the pages of this remarkable work: meteorites, comets, asteroids, robots, geology, mining and even spaceships. Dr Lewis goes into fascinating details regarding the origin and composition of meteorites, then takes us on a journey to the asteroids themselves. The reader begins to grasp the staggering scientific and material wealth awaiting us within those rubble piles. Reading Asteroid Mining 101 made me want to grab my favorite pickaxe and put on a spacesuit. Be warned asteroids, we’re coming to get you!” --Geoff Notkin, science writer and host of TV’s Meteorite Men.