[meteorite-list] Meteorites From Vatican Collection On Display At California Planetarium

From: Bernd Pauli HD <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:52:04 2004
Message-ID: <3D49674D.59D9DCD5_at_lehrer.uni-karlsruhe.de>

Ron Baalke quoted:

> "The net worth of the metal alone in a 1-kilometer asteroid is something
> like 100 trillion dollars," said Consolmagno. "How much would it cost to
> go up there and collect it? About the same amount."

Hello Everybody,

The minor planet Geographos was estimated by Herrick (1971) to
be worth some 900 billion dollars in nickel and the heavier elements
that are mostly locked in the Earth's core: rhenium, osmium, iridium,
platinum, gold, etc.

Reference:

HERRICK SAMUEL (1971) Exploration and 1994 Exploitation of
Geographos (In Asteroids (1979), ed. T. Gehrels, pp. 222-226,
Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona).


Best regards,

Bernd
Received on Thu 01 Aug 2002 12:52:29 PM PDT