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From: hallvard@immhp3.marina.unit.no (Hallvard Paulsen)
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Subject: Re: Excavating (minig) gold in the space by NASA.
Keywords: gold
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.064309.23339@ugle.unit.no>
Date: 12 Jun 91 06:43:09 GMT
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In article <sehari.676666308@du248-12.cc.iastate.edu>, 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.
|> 
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|> 
|> >>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.
|> 

	This sounds like a task for Donald Duck & Co. :-)

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