Asteroid belt Asteroids can provide enough material in the form of water, air, fuel, metal, soil, and nutrients to support ten to a hundred trillion humans in space. Many asteroids contain minerals that are inheriently valuable, such as rare earths and precious metals. However, low gravity, distance from Earth and disperse nature of their orbits make it difficult to settle on small asteroids.
Asteroid belt Asteroids can provide enough material in the form of water, air fuel, metal, soil, and nutrients to? s.upport ten to a hundred trillion humans in space. Many asteroids contain minerals that are inheriently valuable, such as rare earths and precious metals However, low gravity distance from Earth and disperse nature of their orbits make it difficult to. settle on small asteroids.