[ptsal]

Interesting post
Thanks

[texas booster]

... and no one had noticed the iron ‘whiskers.’

(That's because they weren't there. The asteroid soil, it's Aliiiivvee!)

</ bad movies off>

[decal]

"The sulphur from the iron sulphide then evaporates into the surrounding vacuum in the form of gaseous sulphur compounds."

Asteroids smell like the campfire scene in Blazing Saddles then.

[chrisser]

Based on the prices at the local scrap yard for ferrous metal, I’m pretty confident I wont be investing in asteroid iron mining.

[Pollster1]

Imagine this story with just a couple of changes:

The Chinese space agency CNSA sent the Starship SN1 probe to Itokawa, which collected soil samples and brought them safely back to Earth—for the first time in the history of space travel. This valuable cargo arrived in Hubei Province, China, in early December, 2019, and since then, the samples have been the subject of intensive research. A team from Hubei and Beijing has now succeeded in coaxing a previously undiscovered secret from some of these tiny sample particles: the surface of the dust grains is covered with tiny wafer-thin life-like particles. This observation surprised Prof. Peng Yinhua ...