Golden asteroid visit 2023

[alpal]

Hi All,
Golden asteroid: Nasa mission set to launch in 2023

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/63471074

3 November 2022

Somewhere between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter lurks a massive metal asteroid known as 16 Psyche.
16 Psyche is thought to be the exposed metallic heart of a dead planet.
Nasa has announced it plans to launch a mission to the 140-mile-wide rock in October 2023.
The asteroid is thought to contain a core of iron, nickel and gold worth a whopping $10,000 quadrillion.
That's enough money to make everyone on the planet a billionaire. Not that there are any plans to remove it!

cheers
Allan

[alan meehan (Alan)]

you mean no plans as yet,i could see a digger up there

[alpal]

Originally Posted by alan meehan

you mean no plans as yet,i could see a digger up there

It's too hard to mine it -
it wouldn't be worth it.
However it may tell us about the core of our own planet.
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/core
Gold in the Earth's core;

In fact, one geoscientist calculated that there are 1.6 quadrillion tons of gold in the core—
that’s enough to gild the entire surface of the planet half-a-meter (1.5 feet) thick.