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By not putting stupid people in control of moving asteroids. As Doomsnaught said, this stuff is predictable if you know what you're doing.

I think all this talk of the Platinum market price falling through the floor just because someone brings an asteroid over is missing something: there is nothing automatic about a market price, it's based on what people are willing to pay for something, and also what people are willing to sell it...

There probably won't be people in space-suits swinging picks or digging with shoves, if that's what you're asking. No, the actual mining will be done by machines, with humans there to direct things, troubleshoot, etc. And that mostly because speed-of-light delay will be a problem for...

The amount you would have to remove to make any serious difference would be... astronomical. Fact check - all of them have gravity influencing them. All of them. Nothing in space is "floating" - they are all in free-fall. Asteroids in the solar system are orbiting the sun.

https://www.space.com/trump-moon-mining-space-resources-executive-order.html Trump signs executive order to support moon mining, tap asteroid resources