Sonter (2006) explains asteroid mining as the key to the future economy of space. The asteroids are, according to Sonter, the most cost-effective way to commercialize space, and about 10% of NEAs are energetically more accessible than the Moon, meaning that less energy is needed to visit them.

The asteroids we know of are debris from the formation process of planets and a part of a solar system's history (Matter et al. 2011; Andreic 2016). Their sizes, shapes, bulk densities and surface properties are all clues to how and when they were formed through collisional evolution.
The small asteroids have assumedly suffered less alteration through fewer collisions and have more conserved pristine material, which could be useful for a mining expedition.

There has existed observational methods for the solar systems for many millennia. However, asteroids have long been an understudied celestial phenomena; there were no sufficient methods or technology around that would do the job properly. It was, according to Kowal (1996) not until almost 1970 when individual asteroids could be analyzed in a more specific matter, such as contour, size and composition through remote sensing techniques. Now the asteroids are, for instance, a major part in the unsolved mysteries about the origin of a solar system. And precise observations could be a way of solving them. Through observing asteroids using modern methods described herein; information can be interpreted to gain knowledge of orbital position of an asteroid, the variation in texture of its surface, its shape and even rotation. By gaining information on these features and setting it into context with surrounding asteroids, it is possible to perform statistical analyses which could improve our
knowledge of the asteroids evolution and origin within a solar system (Kowal 1996).

-Vide Hellgren, Asteroid Mining: A Review of Methods and Aspects, 2016
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