  We present a new method for engineering the artificial capture of asteroids.
Based on theories of the chaos-assisted capture of natural satellites of the
giant planets, we show how an unbound asteroid that passes close to a regular
region of phase space can be easily moved onto the nearby KAM tori and
essentially permanently captured with the Earth's Hill sphere without closing
the zero velocity curves. The method has the advantages of a relatively low
delta-v requirement and no need for control strategies. An illustration of the
method is given for an example asteroid trajectory, demonstrating that it is a
viable strategy for the final capture stage of asteroids in the Earth's
neighbourhood.
