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Prospect of Exploration and Exploitation of Kuiper Belt Object Resources in the Future

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The Kuiper Belt is a distant region of our solar system beginning at a solar distance of about 30 AU. By now, the discovery of several small worlds, like the dwarf planets Pluto, Makemake or Haumea, has shown that the trans-Neptunian region of the solar system is indeed more crowded than first meets the eye.

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The author thanks the 3rd Advanced Study Group of DLR, consisting of Marc Bernabeu, Joao Lousada, Claudia Terhes and Niels van der Pas for their valuable contribution to investigating this topic.

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Maiwald, V. (2018). Prospect of Exploration and Exploitation of Kuiper Belt Object Resources in the Future. In: Badescu, V., Zacny, K. (eds) Outer Solar System. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73845-1_14

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