<font color="yellow">I'd imagine that the Atens would be easier to send to Earth if you intended to land it in that stadium at several kilometers per second</font><br /><br />Find one with platinum and carbon and crash the biatch into the moon. It's just sitting there useless anyway, and as a neato bonus we get both economic support from the NASCAR crowd plus all all the science data gathered during the mofo once in 10,000,000 year impact event. Pretty looking ejecta and such. <br /><br />Now, maneuvering it. Convince Bill Gates (easy), Larry Page (more evil than he claims), Sergey Brin (sneaky f'ing russian), The Disney Corporation (easy), Warren Buffett (perhaps off him and brainwash his kid), Steve Ballmer (easy), Ingvar Kamprad (nah, tightwad. forget it), Paul Allen (easy), Mittal (easy), Prince Alwaleed (easy), The Waltons (hard), Bernard Arnault (wait, he's french. screw him.), Rupert Murdoch (easy), Putin (president for life), The Republican Party (lol, are you kidding), and the inner circle of the Chinese government of your plan for solar domination. They'll provide cash to get you going. (Consider calling yourself something catchy, say 'Blue Sun'.) Publicly announce only the microsoft trio as your private backers. Use google video and a google/microsoft built fiber network to crush television and the baby bells. Now you control ALL the media. Begin manipulating world markets in your favor. <br /><br />Build solar powered electromagnetic tethers in earth orbit to send your electromagnetic catapult, nuclear reactor, hydrogen tanks plus nuclear thermal rocket for breaking, and platinum mining kit to the asteroid. Boost all of it on protons or whatever is cheapest. This tether is reusable thousands of times, and you can make cash on the side moving satellites from LEO to GEO and back for repair. Wait...<br /><br />A year or so later using your machinery which just started to arrive, begin mining platinum. Fire it using the mass driver towards earth in prema