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Asteroid that was once thought to be worth $10,000 quadrillion and make everyone a BILLIONAIRE could actually be just a pile of rubble, new study suggests
2021-06-19
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • A new study suggests asteroid 16 Psyche is not $10,000 quadrillion, but a pile of rubble

  • Researchers believe it could be 82.5 percent metal, 7 percent low-iron pyroxene and 10.5 percent carbonaceous chondrite

  • It could also have as much as 35 percent empty space inside

  • Previous estimates said 16 Psyche could contain as much as 95 percent metal, making it chock full of iron, nickel and gold

  • It is roughly 114 miles wide or almost the same size as Massachusetts

  • It contains one percent of all material in the asteroid belt

  • NASA is sending a mission to the asteroid, slated to launch in August 2022 and arriving in early 2026
Posted by:Skidmark

#9  Supports #4 & #5

Source: Sketchy Science Blog

Comets, Asteroids, and Bruce Willis: The Science of Blunt Force Trauma to the Earth
Posted by: Clatle Johnson6602   2021-06-19 14:00  

#8  Good point; 80s action movie dollars or 20s franchise prequel amount?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-06-19 12:49  

#7  if you print enough money, then everyone is a billionaire

leftist economics 101
Posted by: Retard Strength   2021-06-19 09:38  

#6  Researchers believe it could be 82.5 percent metal, 7 percent low-iron pyroxene and 10.5 percent carbonaceous chondrite

It could also have as much as 35 percent empty space inside

Habitat?
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-06-19 08:56  

#5  This is a costly effort which will take a significant amount of time and resources.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-06-19 07:04  

#4  

NASA MEDIA Budget HYPE again followed by FACTS years later....


From one of my really older postings.
Eg. Mars Rocks Found on Antarctica
Years ago some Eggheads at NASA needed to justify a lifetime of MARS research grants and they all of a sudden found rocks with indications of life in them and they happen to only find them in the most inaccessible place in the world.

NASA happens to go the Antarctica, happens to find a rock, the rock that happens to contain a fossil, that happened to have survived being formed into molten rock, survived being blasted into space, survived traveling between 38.6 million miles to 62.07 million miles over 100’s of thousands of years and survived 1000’s of degrees of burning up on reentry heat to earth and successfully landed and survived, by their own estimate, 100’s of 1000's of years in earths meanest, harshest weather environment, without being worn down into sand or dust?
Yea Right.

This NASA PR balloon piece was used to sway public opinion and US Congress budget funding for a Mars Mission and another Eggheads attempts at a long running meal ticket? According to the Eggheads even if we get to mars and find no life we can learn from that also and learn ways of avoiding what happen there here on earth.
(The Climate Change hook also ☻)

Posted by: NN2N1   2021-06-19 06:58  

#3  Np.

Declare it a 'meme' stock and tell the Redditeers that galactic shorts are about to squeezed... we'll all be billionaires in no time.
Posted by: Craising Hapsburg9920   2021-06-19 01:56  

#2  Eros is the asteroid with more gold than the core of the Earth.
Posted by: 3dc   2021-06-19 01:39  

#1  Hi yo! Galactic prospectors;
gunslingers, clerks, conscripters.

Reports that budgeted machine,
of bespectacled space marines;

Wealth! Floating with abandon.
Bling! And nary a Wakandan!

"Conquer! Seize whatever's in it!"
For what may just be Thanos' shit.

For all that glitters is not Aurum.
Except allocation harum scarum.

Posted by: Dron66046   2021-06-19 01:07  

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