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| Nov 14, 2023 at 0:07 | comment | added | Paŭlo Ebermann | @TheRocketfan If you are in the Ooort cloud, sending material down towards the sun is easy (everything is quite slow out there, and you are basically making a comet), stopping it from going out again is the hard part – you basically have to brake when you get into the inner solar system. | |
| Nov 13, 2023 at 18:09 | comment | added | The Rocket fan | @AlanBirtles so that means we could get the material from the Oort cloud, but the energy requirements to send the material to the Sun in the right orbital plane would be immense. We may as well just mine Mercury instead. | |
| Nov 13, 2023 at 17:41 | comment | added | Alan Birtles | @TheRocketfan according to wikipedia the Kuiper belt is still only a third of the mass of mercury (1.1E23 kg), the Oort cloud does have much more mass, 5 earths in the outer cloud alone | |
| Nov 13, 2023 at 14:05 | history | edited | Dragongeek | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 13, 2023 at 14:04 | vote | accept | The Rocket fan | ||
| Nov 13, 2023 at 14:04 | comment | added | The Rocket fan | Interesting! I guess there isn’t enough material in the inner asteroid belt. Maybe in the Kuiper asteroid belt or Oort Cloud, there would be enough material, but as you said there is no proper reason to mine stuff there, since the fuel costs would just increase and Mercury is anyway at the right area with the right amount of material. | |
| Nov 13, 2023 at 13:58 | history | answered | Dragongeek | CC BY-SA 4.0 |