[meteorite-list] Mission to Bring Back Soil Samples from Mars Gets 2018 L...

[MeteorHntr at aol.com]

OK,

I know I am responding to my  own post, but...

$9,000,000 a gram is about 10,000 times MORE expensive  than the $1,000 a 
gram range that most SNC sell for now.

10,000 times  more expensive!

Meteorites are SOOOO under-priced. 

Steve  #1



In a message dated 7/10/2008 8:52:40 P.M. Central  Daylight Time, 
MeteorHntr at aol.com writes:
Wow, 

Only $4.5 Billion (up  to $8B) to  return a single 500 gram SNC specimen!

That would be $9  Million to $16  Million per gram.

How many DIFFERENT SNC specimens  could be found on  planet Earth if 
$8,000,000,000 would be spent on  hunting for them over the same  period of 
time this 
project would  take?

Maybe a new, un-terrestrialized  SNC would offer some new  information that a 
Martian meteorite wouldn't, but $8  Billion dollars  worth?

Call me a bit skeptical, but I kind of doubt that  any  information would be 
worth that much.  Especially if we are going  to  put humans on the surface 
of 
Mars a couple of years later.  

1% of $8  Billion would only be $80,000,000.

I bet we  meteorite hunters  collectively could find 50 new different Martian 
 
meteorites for $80,000,000 if  someone would put up the reward  money.  And 
science would learn MORE from  those 50 than they  would from one single one.

Where do I apply to compete  for some of  this crazy grant money?  Somebody 
help me get  some!

Steve  Arnold #1




Only In a message dated  7/10/2008 8:30:10  P.M. Central Daylight Time, 
baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov   writes:

http://www.marsdaily.com/reports/Mission_to_bring_back_soil_samples_from_Mars_
gets_2018_la
APF
July   9, 2008


Its authors said that, regardless of the start date, it  would  take five
years for the precious 500-gramme (1.1-pound) sample to  be brought  back
to Earth and space powers had to pool resources to  achieve  the
extraordinary goal.

The document says the cost would  roughly range  from 4.5 to eight billion
dollars (three to 5.3 billion  euros), "depending on  the final
requirements and international  cooperative structure."  




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