[meteorite-list] Friday Thoughts
Kevin Kichinka
marsrox at gmail.com
Fri Apr 5 17:02:26 EDT 2013
Team Meteorite:
Ron Baalke just posted a news article regarding 'mining asteroids'.
Here's a quote:
"Platinum-group metals, or PGMs, are among the most valuable (and most
talked about) resources that asteroids could yield. The price of platinum is
currently just a bit less than the price of gold - about $1,520 per ounce.
Anderson said a single 500-meter-wide (quarter-mile-wide) asteroid
could contain
more platinum than has been mined during the history of humanity. Planetary
Resources is looking at a process that would turn the extracted platinum into
220-pound, 7-foot-wide "wiffleballs" of foamed metal that could be sent down
through the atmosphere without breaking up. The balls would hit the ground at a
velocity of about 60 mph."
This makes me wonder.....
- what government entity will permit 220 lb. spheres of metal to rain
down on their population and,
- how come we haven't recovered any platinum-rich meteorites?
Kevin Kichinka
Rio del Oro, Santa Ana, Costa Rica
www.theartofcollectingmeteorites.com
'The Global Meteorite Price Report - 2013'
Marsrox at gmail.com
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