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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @07:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @07:21AM (#211801)
    solar energy + raw materials from asteroids -> more solar panels
    solar energy + solar panels + CO2 => O2 + C
    solar energy + solar panels + 2 x H2O (from some asteroids) => O2 + 2 x H2.

    But trying to do any of that on Mars would be stupid. It's a gravity well with the wrong atmosphere, wrong pressure, wrong climate.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @08:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @08:16AM (#211829)

    But it was Mars in Total Recall so it has to be Mars!