 Why were Parker and Queazy voyaging on the trip looking for an asteroid?
And yet, if by some chance there was such a rigidly specified asteroid, their financial worries would be over. Now that he and Queazy had found the asteroid, they were desperate to get it to its destination, for fear that the Saylor brothers might get wind of what was going on, and try to beat them out of their profits. Now they scuffed along the smooth-plane topside of the asteroid, the magnets in their shoes keeping them from stepping off into space. He and Queazy caught up with her on the side of the asteroid they hadn't yet examined.
 From the request of Andrew Burnside to purchase it
 The Interplanetary Hauling & Moving Co. was in difficult competition with Saylor & Saylor to get to it first.  The Interplanetary Hauling & Moving Co. had to have it to prove their business was legitimate.  From the request of Andrew Burnside to purchase it  From the request of Andrew Burnside to destroy it