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Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth

posted by janrinok on Tuesday July 21 2015, @01:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the waving-money-goodbye dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Asteroid UW-158 is set to wizz past Earth today, carrying an estimated five trillion dollars in platinum.

Spectroscopic analysis has revealed the composition of the asteroid, and made it a prime target for future asteroid-mining missions. It is approximately 452 metres by 1,011 metres in size. If the analysis is correct, it could be carrying an astonishing 90 million tons of platinum. It will swing past Earth at a distance of 2.4 million km, and will not be visible to the naked eye.

Paging Bruce Willis...

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday July 21 2015, @02:50AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Tuesday July 21 2015, @02:50AM (#211725) Homepage Journal

    While space does to there is an arms factory and military base in most states.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by TheRaven on Tuesday July 21 2015, @08:13AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Tuesday July 21 2015, @08:13AM (#211826) Journal
    Most of the stuff NASA buys is provided by the same companies that the DoD buys from. The reason that it doesn't get as much support from campaign contributions is the volume: the military buys a lot more stuff. I don't think that there'd be much objection to transferring military funding to space, you'd still be spending a lot of money with the military industrial complex.
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