Re: Hospitable? Re: population sizes for colonising a planet

"David Tomlin" <davtomcat@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Would Venus be the system's second best source of uranium and other
>> minerals preferentially differentiated into Earth's crust?
>
>I think the best source for all heavy metals would be
>metallic asteroids, some of which are earth-crossing.

Contra various posts that Earth may be the best souce of uranium. Asteroids
would have some but scattered randomly, free of gravitational or biological
concentrations.

-xx- Damien X-)
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