"Mini-moons like this are ideal targets for mining, according to Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, one of the scientists who charted 2024 PT5's path around our planet."
"Asteroid mining could someday help humans travel further out into the cosmos and extend our presence through the solar system."
"Mini-moons are very important for the nascent global space economy," Marcos told Business Insider in an email. Because they come so close to Earth and take a sojourn in our orbit, he added, "they are among the objects easier to reach using low-cost missions."
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