Is mining asteroids that impacted the moon easier than mining asteroids themselves?

The resources tucked away in asteroids promise to provide the building blocks of humanity’s expansion into space. However, accessing those resources can prove tricky. There’s the engineering challenge of landing a spacecraft on one of the low-gravity targets and essentially dismantling it while still remaining attached to it.

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I wonder how many asteroids could be directed to deliberately crash onto the surface of the moon.?

Then mine them.

Tau.Neutrino said:

I wonder how many asteroids could be directed to deliberately crash onto the surface of the moon.?

Then mine them.

Would they turn themselves and the moon surface molten ?
If so how long to cool down I wonder.

and here we thought this was going to be about imperialist powers laying sleeper explosives on the next celestial body to deter other invaders

Cymek said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

I wonder how many asteroids could be directed to deliberately crash onto the surface of the moon.?

Then mine them.

Would they turn themselves and the moon surface molten ?
If so how long to cool down I wonder.

Or they could be directed to the moon and soft landed by rockets 🚀 fitted to them by droids.