Xref: utzoo sci.astro:13687 sci.electronics:20815 sci.physics:20148 sci.research:1723 sci.aeronautics:2260 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.iastate.edu!du248-12.cc.iastate.edu!sehari From: sehari@iastate.edu (Sehari Babak) Newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.electronics,sci.physics,sci.research,sci.aeronautics Subject: Excavating (minig) gold in the space by NASA. Keywords: gold Message-ID: Date: 11 Jun 91 18:51:48 GMT Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA Lines: 32 This article originally was posted in misc.invest. I thought it might be interesting for this news group too. In <1991Jun11.055227.2611@nas.nasa.gov> crayfe@nas.nasa.gov (Cray Hardware Support) writes: >I recently came across this article in sci.elctronics and thought it >might be of interest since the recent discussion of where the price >of gold might be going. Anybody care to comment? >In article <7Fs532w164w@spocom.guild.org> >luns@spocom.guild.org (Luns Tee) writes: >>> >>Today's Washington Post reports that an asteroid has been found orbiting the >>Sun at a distance of about 20 million miles from Earth (closest point). It >>apparently contains 10000 tons of gold and 100000 tons of platinum, as well >>as 10 billion tons of iron and 1 billion tons of nickel. Its estimated >>worth was put at around 1 trillion dollars. This might be one of the first real applications of Space technology. I say NASA should issue stocks to built a space craft to go and bring that thing down. This could open up another very lucrative investment, a side from satellites. The technology we gain could help us mine other things in the space too. Then, boldly going were no man has gone before makes business sense to. I assume this could be possible if the price of gold goes much higher. let us forget about mars and concentrate on this, for now. After all, who needs cheap marsian dart. With highest regards, Babak Sehari.