How do you Mine a Valuable Asteroid Rock Pile?

With Karen Daniels

Karen Daniels of NCSU talks rocks in space, and how to get them back to Earth forever changing the global economy.

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/karenedaniels
On the Web: https://mastodon.online/@rockcairn

Speaker Bio:

Professor Daniels received her PhD in 2002 from Cornell University and joined the faculty of North Carolina State University in 2005, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Her main research interests center around experiments on the non-equilibrium and nonlinear dynamics of granular materials, fluids, and gels. Several of these studies have used idealized systems to provide insight into biological, geological, and solar system phenomena, including in rubble pile asteroids.

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