Xref: utzoo sci.astro:13696 sci.electronics:20822 sci.physics:20152 sci.research:1725 sci.aeronautics:2262 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven.umd.edu!uvaarpa!murdoch!kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU!rb9a From: rb9a@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Raul Baragiola) Newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.electronics,sci.physics,sci.research,sci.aeronautics Subject: Re: Excavating (minig) gold in the space by NASA. Keywords: gold Message-ID: <1991Jun11.202207.15680@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: 11 Jun 91 20:22:07 GMT References: Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Lines: 30 In article sehari@iastate.edu (Sehari Babak) writes: >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. > With all the discussion going on about NASA's budget, the timing of this news (?) is too perfect. Now, how can they tell the asteroid contained platinum and not lead, just to give an example? -- Raul A. Baragiola \Internet: raul@virginia.edu Dept. Nuclear Engnr. and Engnr. Physics \Phone: (804)-982-2907 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22901 \ Fax: (804)-924-6270