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From: leech@zeta.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
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Subject: Re: Room Temperature fusion - possible indications?
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Date: 28 Mar 89 02:41:12 GMT
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In article <7739@pyr.gatech.EDU> ccoprmd@pyr.UUCP (Matthew T. DeLuca) writes:
>measured in the hundreds of thousands of tons, if not millions.  Of course,
>since the object of the mission is to get asteriod ores (not fuel, by the way),
>the fuel for the return trip must be carried on board, and this fuel must be
>sufficient to accelerate and decelerate the loaded ship.

    Probably not, since we suspect many asteroids of being
volatile-rich. Fuel and reaction mass, all in one. I was unable to
find any information on D/H ratios in a quick glance through my copy
of _Asteroids_, but the Phobos mission may provide info in short
order, if their mass spectrometer determines D abundance.

    This is aside from there being no need to accelerate at 1G in
either direction for other reasons.
--
    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/
    "Totally bounded: A set that can be patrolled by a finite number
     of arbitrarily near-sighted policemen."    A. Wilonsky, 1978