{"id":3926014,"date":"2026-05-19T07:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/asteroid-2022-ob5-spins-too-fast-for-current-prospectors-highlighting-the-divide-between-accessible-and-exploitable\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T07:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:02:39","slug":"asteroid-2022-ob5-spins-too-fast-for-current-prospectors-highlighting-the-divide-between-accessible-and-exploitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/asteroid-2022-ob5-spins-too-fast-for-current-prospectors-highlighting-the-divide-between-accessible-and-exploitable\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid 2022 OB5 spins too fast for current prospectors, highlighting the divide between &#8216;accessible&#8217; and &#8216;exploitable&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Asteroid mining seems simple in theory. A spacecraft flies up to a giant rock in space, scoops out some material, and either processes it on site or returns it back to a huge central processing facility. But in practice, it is certainly not that simple, and a new paper from some Spanish researchers, published in the journal Icarus, showcases one of the reasons why\u2014many small asteroids are spinning ridiculously fast.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-05-asteroid-ob5-fast-current-prospectors.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asteroid mining seems simple in theory. A spacecraft flies up to a giant rock in space, scoops out some material, and either processes it on site or returns it back to a huge central processing facility. But in practice, it is certainly not that simple, and a new paper from some Spanish researchers, published in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}