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NASA to explore space rock worth so much money it would DESTROY world economy
Daily Star ^ | 16th January 2017 | Peter Truman

Posted on 01/16/2017 4:24:39 PM PST by COBOL2Java

THE American space agency is planning to send a spacecraft to a lump of metal in space worth quadrillions of dollars.

The 200km-wide asteroid is currently orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter.

It is made up of various precious metals such as iron, nickel and gold.

Experts believe the iron alone in the rock would be worth $10,000 quadrillion – enough to cause the world’s economy, worth $73.7 trillion, to promptly collapse altogether.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailystar.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: 201701; asteroid; asteroidmining; asteroids; astronomy; gold; iron; jupiter; mars; metal; nasa; nickel; nickelmining; science; spaceforce
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To: oldasrocks

Why would we bring it back here? Much more useful up there building more ships and habitats...


101 posted on 01/16/2017 8:42:08 PM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Multi Pass!!!


102 posted on 01/16/2017 8:59:37 PM PST by To Hell With Poverty (Refreshing? Trump makes me feel like I just freebased a York Peppermint Pattie!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

That rock is known as aunt Beatrice tanner, I named it after her in august of 1988..


103 posted on 01/16/2017 9:13:30 PM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: al baby

Yes, but someone will sell deeds to mine it!


104 posted on 01/16/2017 9:33:29 PM PST by Doctor DNA
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To: COBOL2Java

Earth First! (We’ll mine the other planets later)


105 posted on 01/16/2017 9:44:40 PM PST by Eagles6 (My weapons are lubricated by liberal tears.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Future site of Motel 6?


106 posted on 01/16/2017 9:59:03 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: COBOL2Java

While obviously we cannot get at it now, that seems useful in the future assuming we have some energy breakthrough. 200 km of metal OUTSIDE of the gravity well.

But yeah. kind of fake news today.


107 posted on 01/16/2017 10:06:54 PM PST by covertInLA
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To: Dead Corpse

But no moon. I’ve noted before that my dad averred that he had insisted in the 1930’s that men would go to the moon in his lifetime. And that they did, just some 35 years later. Now it’s coming on twice that time since, without any increment whatsoever in manned exploration of space, starting with a return to the moon, which is an obvious base camp for further missions.

Now everybody’s marveling at the landing of the Space-X booster on that barge. Ok, cool. But it ain’t the moon, or anything beyond that. We’re left with LEO and everybody is talking smack. Well, I’m calling BS on that.

... and “Shawyer’s Em Drive” ? that’s pure fantasy. That’s where we are now, fantasy as reality.

My honest opinion is that Apollo will fade into myth, even as more and more fantastical ideas become current, of course with no hope of fruition.


108 posted on 01/16/2017 10:18:22 PM PST by dr_lew (I)
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To: moovova

Then again let’s not! Settle for delivery of refined ore in a convenient orbit?


109 posted on 01/16/2017 10:44:41 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: GraceG

Gold? Or silver?


110 posted on 01/16/2017 10:45:35 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: GingisK

Not anytime soon.


111 posted on 01/16/2017 10:47:41 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: from occupied ga

The value is not having to ship construction material into orbit in the first place.


112 posted on 01/16/2017 10:50:08 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: Proyecto Anonimo

Chelyabinsk!


113 posted on 01/16/2017 10:58:16 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: marron

Spectroscopic analyses of the surface gives a clue.


114 posted on 01/16/2017 11:02:56 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: from occupied ga

Snag a small body rich in platinum group metals.


115 posted on 01/16/2017 11:06:54 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: Ozark Tom
Red Dwraf
116 posted on 01/16/2017 11:59:49 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Kickass Conservative
"In my best TV Announcer voice, next week on Gold Rush"

Hoffman's fail to find gold on Asteroid comprised of 80℅ Gold.

117 posted on 01/17/2017 1:50:28 AM PST by DAC21 (in)
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To: from occupied ga

then there’s the added cost of getting that much metal up into space.


118 posted on 01/17/2017 2:23:01 AM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: Ozark Tom
The value is not having to ship construction material into orbit in the first place.

One little thing. It isn't in orbit around the earth it's in the steroid belt; for you space kadets that's between Mars and Jupiter

119 posted on 01/17/2017 5:15:02 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Ozark Tom

I’m curious just how much do you think it would cost per pound (using pound as a measure of mass which really isn’t correct) to bring back a thousand pounds or so of material from the asteroid belt? And how did you arrive at your figure? Hint you could use the Apollo program as an example


120 posted on 01/17/2017 5:21:15 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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