its in that haitable zone.
Is terraforming asteroids possible?
No. ;D
Since it happens so slowly I also think life will adapt to the new environment through evolution. It's not like all the water suddenly evaporates or something like that. We have had big "disasters" earlier in our history, like the snowball Earth, and it has sped up evolution during that times.
So until the Sun becomes a red giant, life might continue to exist on Earth (and the Moon). :)
Asteroids of special interest:
(6178) 1986 DA is a potentially metallic near-Earth asteroid.
216 Kleopatra is a metallic main-belt asteroid.
Only 2 asteroids.
This assuming that you need and only need gravity. What about a dome around the whole asteroid?
You mean comets?O_O Thats Impossiple! :o
The impossible is only the untried. But, terraforming astroids is impossible because in order to terraform something, it has to be large enough to retain it's apmosphere. Because of this, you can't finish step one.
I think it is safe to assume that we would colonize many solar systems by 3000. by 4000-5000 we would control the entire galaxy. by 7000-8000 we would control multiple galactic clusters. by 10000 we would probebly become technologicly advanced enough to trancend mortality.This would happen...
P.S. this is actually my pessimistic prediction. by optimistic is trancendance by 3000!
Of cource we could have become extinct before then.
On asteroids.
In the future I would think we would have robotic factories on the asteroids, and human populations on the planets and moons. But not too long in the future (100 yrs or so?) we would finally decide to use the solar sail technology to go to alpha centari.(we actually know how to get there quite fast-within a lifetime). From there our natural curiosity would compel us out of the space exploration age, and into the colonization age.
I think it is safe to assume that we would colonize many solar systems by 3000. by 4000-5000 we would control the entire galaxy. by 7000-8000 we would control multiple galactic clusters. by 10000 we would probebly become technologicly advanced enough to trancend mortality.