%0 Journal Article %T Slow ultrafilters and asymptotic cones of proper metric spaces %A Lars Scheele %J Mathematics %D 2010 %I arXiv %X In this paper I present an elementary construction to prove that any proper metric space can arise as the asymptotic cone of another proper metric space. Furthermore I answer a question of Drutu and Sapir concerning slow ultrafilters. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.1699v1