[meteorite-list] How much will your meteorites be worth in the FUTURE?

From: Jodie Reynolds <spacerocks_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 03:38:35 -0700
Message-ID: <891971650.20130310033835_at_spaceballoon.org>

Hello Steve,

I agree, we're unlikely to launch asteroids into space. Doing so is
prohibitively expensive, both in Delta-V and in having to create the
asteroid to toss it out there in the first place...

_Returning_ materials from an asteroid would actually be quite cost-effective -
gravity does all the work.

As far as "most Hurricanes [sic]" [starting] over the area of a rocket
launch:

How many rocket launches are occurring off the coast of Africa
anyway? I wasn't aware they were lobbing so much stuff into space
there!

Hurricanes form when 80F+ (26.5C+) water of at least 150ft (45.7m) coincide
with an area of low atmospheric pressure. Winds are attracted into
the center of that depression, pushed by areas of higher pressure.
The warm water heats the air and it rises up from the center of the
depression. The ocean coughs-up the warm waters and high moisture
content, feeding it energy, and it begins to rise faster and faster
around the center. Thermodynamics does the rest.

If everything works-out for it, conditions-wise, that tropical
depression will develop into a tropical storm and finally into the
swirling maelstrom of a hurricane. By the time it hits the US it is
radically weakening due to the much colder waters and air. They die
before penetrating very far because they just can't last in the
cold[er] air, there's just not enough energy to extract from it.

As much as anyone might desire to HAARP on "alternative speculation"
- it's hard to alter the physics.

--- Jodie



Sunday, March 10, 2013, 12:58:55 AM, you wrote:

> I believe the site forgot to mention the primary value of astroids
> will be as material we do not have to launch into space. The metals
> and anything with water will have a great value for use in space
> construction, but the achondrites that lack metal with have little
> value in space construction. The cost of bringing anything back to
> earth from space will preserve metorite prices, with the possible
> exception of achondrites ans lunars. Bringing samples back from mars
> would in most cases increase the price as we would have to build a
> facility to launch vehicals from mars which is why most reasonable
> proposed mars missions are a one way trip with no return. A space
> elevator would would lower costs some but the biggest Problem of
> sending stuff into space is the large hole it makes in the ozone
> layer every time we send up a rocket. Launches of the shuttle over
> the US in the 1980s caused disruptions in the weather which included a rare tornado in december in
> michigan. and most Hurricanes have been exactly two weeks after a
> major launch of a rocket over the area of the hurricane.
> Cheers
> Steve Dunklee

> --- On Sun, 3/10/13, hall at meteorhall.com <hall at meteorhall.com> wrote:

>> From: hall at meteorhall.com <hall at meteorhall.com>
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] How much will your meteorites be worth in the FUTURE?
>> To: "Shawn Alan" <photophlow at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: "Meteorite Central" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Date: Sunday, March 10, 2013, 6:53 AM
>> Looking into the crystal pallasite
>> ball, in the year 2025, I see
>> achondrite fragments at $1.00 per gram! However, they will
>> lack the
>> beautiful fusion crust of our meteorites. Besides, due to
>> the UN Universal
>> Museum Convention of 2035, all of our meteorites will be
>> confiscated as
>> historical and/or cultural artifacts...JUST KIDDING! Just
>> fooling. That
>> doesn't happen until 2075. :-)
>> Fred
>>
>>
>> Hello Listers
>> >
>> > Ever wonder how much an asteroid would yield in profit,
>> gold, platinum,
>> > o2, hydrogen? Well a website called http://www.asterank.com/ has done
>> > that.
>> >
>> > There are over 600,000 asteroids and counting that are
>> listed on the
>> > website, where one can categorize in value, profit, or
>> accessibility.
>> >
>> > Germania is value at $100 trillion with estimated value
>> return to be
>> > around $97 trillion. However, Germania is located 3.3
>> AU, so the distance
>> >
>> > can be a factor, but once technology improves,
>> asteroids will have endless
>> > supplies of natural resources. Lastly,
>> >
>> > There has been talks that by 2014, there will be
>> asteroid hunting space
>> > crafts in orbit.
>> >
>> >
>> > Now in 20 to 30 year, will meteors coming into Earths
>> atmosphere and
>> > impacting with the Earth be the thing of the past?
>> >
>> > What will that do to meteorite collecting and will
>> prices increase or
>> > decrease because the average joe can go to the
>> >
>> > local Walmart and pick up a rock kit with over 5 pounds
>> of rock from
>> > space? Or will it make the meteorite a rare
>> >
>> > commodified object, more or less a reminder of what
>> once was a common
>> > occurrence but now is story left told in
>> >
>> > the history books, and meteorites will be view a relics
>> and controlled?
>> > artifact? Only time will tell :)
>> >
>> > But til then, check out http://www.asterank.com/? and plan your next
>> > expedition to an asteroid :)
>> >
>> >
>> > Shawn Alan
>> > IMCA 1633
>> > ebay store
>> > http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633ny/m.html
>> > http://meteoritefalls.com/???????????
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Best regards,
 Jodie                            mailto:spacerocks at spaceballoon.org

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