  The aim of the Asteroid Science Intersections with In-Space Mine Engineering
(ASIME) 2016 conference on September 21-22, 2016 in Luxembourg City was to
provide an environment for the detailed discussion of the specific properties
of asteroids, with the engineering needs of space missions that utilize
asteroids.
  The ASIME 2016 Conference produced a layered record of discussions from the
asteroid scientists and the asteroid miners to understand each other's key
concerns and to address key scientific questions from the asteroid mining
companies: Planetary Resources, Deep Space Industries and TransAstra. These
Questions were the focus of the two day conference, were addressed by
scientists inside and outside of the ASIME Conference and are the focus of this
White Paper.
  The Questions from the asteroid mining companies have been sorted into the
three asteroid science themes: 1) survey, 2) surface and 3) subsurface and 4)
Other. The answers to those Questions have been provided by the scientists with
their conference presentations or edited directly into an early open-access
collaborative Google document (August 2016-October 2016), or inserted by A.
Graps using additional reference materials. During the ASIME 2016 last
two-hours, the scientists turned the Questions from the Asteroid Miners around
by presenting their own key concerns: Questions from the Asteroid Scientists .
These answers in this White Paper will point to the Science Knowledge Gaps
(SKGs) for advancing the asteroid in-space resource utilisation domain.
