On the topic of mining and asteroids.. a big one passed us today,

"Radar is a powerful technique for studying an asteroid's size, shape, rotation state, surface features and surface roughness, and for improving the calculation of asteroid orbits. Radar measurements of asteroid distances and velocities often enable computation of asteroid orbits much further into the future than if radar observations weren't available."

Above is taken from the article linked below. So now give us a radar that give us the center point of the asteroids rotation please ;)

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48702 (That's one big darn asteroid)
 
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