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An expert explains the challenges of sustaining life in an asteroid and ideas to overcome them
Key points from article :
Asteroids come in three types: stony, carbonaceous, metallic.
Carbonaceous asteroids are often 10% water.
Size can range from a small house to hundreds of metres.
No atmosphere to protect settlers from cosmic rays.
Could bury settlements to shield from radiation.
Long-term exposure to micro-gravity is detrimental to the body.
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Assistant Professor of Physics at North Carolina State University and Theoretical Astrophysicist.
Senior Astrophysicist at SAO and Astrophysicist at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
