I.  Asteroids
        A. History and background
                1.  Definition of an Asteroid and its a,e,i
                2.  Bode's Law
                3.  Date of first discovery
                4.  Number discovered to date
                5.  Naming Procedure
                6.  General Composition
 
        B.  Taxonomy
                1.  Identification techniques
                2.  Spectral Classes
                3.  What can be learned from meteorites

        C.  Location of Asteroids
                1.  Main belt
                        a.  Formation thories
                                   i.  sun's ring
                                  ii.  exploded planet
                                 iii.  planet that never formed
                                 iv.  perturbation of large mass, increased velocity and loss of mass
                        b.  families
                        c.  Kirkwood gaps/Jupiter's resonances
                        d.  diagram
                2.  Trojans
                        a.  Lagrange "liberation" points
                        b.  applications to our Moon
                3.  Centaurs
                4.  Transneptunian
                5.  Unusuals and Moons
                6.  Near-Earth Asteroids
                        a.  How they got to be NEAs
                                  i.  captured comets
                                 ii.  thrown in from resonances
                        b.  The Amors
                                  i.  description of orbital elements
                                        a. a, e, i
                                        b.  period
                                 ii.  types/classes/probable materials
                                iii.  economic feesability and travel time
                                iv.  sizes
                                 v.  population numbers
                        c.  The Apollos
                                  i.  description of orbital elements
                                        a. a, e, i
                                        b.  period
                                 ii.  types/classes/probable materials
                                iii.  economic feesability and travel time
                                iv.  sizes
                                 v.  population numbers
                        d.  The Atens
                                 i.  description of orbital elements
                                        a. a, e, i
                                        b.  period
                                 ii.  types/classes/probable materials
                                iii.  economic feesability and travel time
                                iv.  sizes
                                 v.  population numbers
                        e.  Diagram of the NEA orbital system
 
 

II. Mining
        A.  What and Why
                1.  Earth
                        a.  current mining practices
                        b.  minerals are trapped in the core
                        c.  mine in Canada
                        d.  waste in chemicals, ect…
                        e.  mining in gravity vs. no gravity
                 2. Lunar
                        a. Helium3 -for fusion
                        b. Ice on moon- for hydrogen, oxygen, and water
                 3.  Asteroids
                        a.  High mineral composition
                        b.  Close proximity
                        c.  How much they’d be worth
       B.  Logistics of Travel and Mining Procedure
                  1. Getting there
                        a.  manned vs. unmanned
                        b.  light weight craft
                        c.  cost
                                i.  paying with advertising
                                ii.  paying with selling instrument space
                 2. Mining
                        a.  stopping asteroid
                        b.  landing/docking
                        c.  set up
                        d.  on site methods
                                i.  magnets
                               ii.  centrifuge
                               iii.  other ways…
                       e.   off site methods
                                i.  high earth orbit
                                ii.  lunar gravity assist
                       f.  wastes
                3.  Getting it Back to Earth
                       a.  explanations of different Earth orbits
                                i.  HEO
                                ii.  LEO
                                iii.  LLEO
                                iv.  GEO
                                v.  liberation points L1-L5
                       b.  beniftis and practicality of each
        C.  Economics
                1.  expenses
                2.  profit potential
                3.  effects on the minerals market
                4.  devaluation of metals
        D.  Companies and Countires involved
                1.  launch locations, ch 8 and 9, Space Resources
                2.  SpaceDev
                3.  PERMANENT
                4.  Japanese companies

III.  Space Law and Ethics
        A.  current policy, treaties and acts
        B.  property rights on planetary bodies
        C.  space race/politics/power
        D.  Environmental
                1.  loss of ozone due to launches
                2.  space pollution
                3.  radioactive fuels
                4.  waste disposal
 
IV.  Conclusion
        A.  Effects
                1.  Earth
                        a.  fuel cells
                        b.  electronics
                        c.  precious metals
                        d.  computers?
                2.  Space
                        a. colonization
                        b. lowering of space costs due to increased resource avalibilty
                3.  price per kilogram to launch from Earth
                4.  NEA mining will make this possible