NASA’s Psyche Tracker: On A Mission To Probe $100,000 Quadrillion Worth Metal-Rich Asteroid
Kya karenge itni dhanrashi ka? The world is psyched about NASA’s Psyche mission and why not when you have an asteroid with a ridiculously rich amount of metal to be mined for a generation? The next…
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Asteroid 16 Psyche, a metal-rich world roughly 225 kilometres wide orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, may contain extraordinary amounts of iron and nickel — enough that back-of-the-envelope estimates have put its theoretical metal value at around $10,000
The number attached to asteroid 16 Psyche is so large that it almost stops being a number. Around $10,000 quadrillion. Ten quintillion dolla
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