Then again its not like NASA's budget is growing they might not be around then.

Still, unless I've got the number wrong, we're looking at about a dozen Ares V launches to do what a robotic mission might accomplish in one or two. Simply by moving materials already in orbit into reach of astronauts.
That means allot more payload room for scientific equipment and more range given to the mission.

clearing your orbit means that anything that's stably orbiting inside your orbit must be gravitationally bound to you. this means: it's orbiting you, or it's in one of your lagrange points, or its orbital period makes a nice, clean ratio with yours.

jupiter has cleared its orbit because the moons and rings are in orbit, the trojans are at lagrange points, etc etc. things may fall into a temporary, unstable orbit with jupiter, and will eventually be ejected or fall in, at which point they would be "cleared."

on the other hand, pluto and ceres are swarmed with non-resonating objects (all sorts of countless kuiper belt objects and asteroid belt objects, respectively)

it looks like we don't know much about this new guy that's stalking us, but i'm sure that it's either a transient (it's only temporarily and unstably associated with us, and a close encounter with us or the moon will eject it–"clear" it), or its orbit around the sun makes a nice clean ratio with our orbit (it would have to be a very complex and improbable orbit).

In such a scenario a rock with a few tons of water ice in it could be worth billions."
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Really now it's thirty feet across. Tons of water from a tiny asteroid? BTW, putting mining equipment, refining capabilities, miners, etc in space is by no means cheap comparatively.

It's value to an astronaut is in any scientific discoveries it may hold about the dynamics of our solar system, it has no mining value at all. I'll say again, it's THIRTY FEET across.

Not necessarily.
If the presumption is we're going to bring this material back to earth to work on it then yes, even a solid gold asteroid does not currently pay back for the mission.

…But lets say we aren't bringing it home here.

The high cost of space missions comes from taking things into space. If we can use the materials we find and direct them to other space based projects, the costs of doing business is drastically reduced.
So I wouldn't ask how much such an asteroid is worth on earth, but how much it may be worth to another astronaut.

In such a scenario a rock with a few tons of water ice in it could be worth billions.

Well unless they are a heck of a lot bigger than 10 meters I don't see any value in mining them for resources. Come on, it's 30 feet in diameter at a few tens of million dollars for a space mission it better be made of solid gold.

Also how can a planet flip over? In space there is no up and down, and as far as I can recall, Earth never flipped so that the Earht started to rotate upside down. This even has nothing to do with the pole shift which is only magnetic different orientation.

Well 0.01 km!

maybe2009 DB is stalking us because it wants a proper name.

You write interesting info…… Would you tell us your qualifications cause I don't think you are a layman on this topic. And can I find info about these rocket pieces on the Internet?

And, would you talk a little bit more on "perturbances?"