Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson says the first trillionaire in the world will be the person who mines asteroids. Asteroid mining is an appealing prospect to commercial companies, and with good reason; space rocks harbor valuable raw metals such as iron, nickel, and platinum.Jan 30, 2018
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Jun 11, 2018 — The race to the riches of asteroids is on, with several private companies vying for funding to become the first space miners. Andrew Glester digs ...
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Neutron star collisions build gold by briefly smashing protons and neutrons together into atomic nuclei, then spewing those newly-bound heavy nuclei across space. ... Stars that fuse gold then spew it into space like this are even rarer.Oct 1, 2020
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Oct 15, 2018 — Interstellar object 'Oumuamua is an asteroid, not a comet argues astrophysicist ... Is the cigar-shaped interstellar object 'Oumuamua a comet or an ...
An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Historically, these terms have been ... Also in 2018, physicist Stephen Hawking, in his final book Brief Answers to the Big Questions, considered an asteroid collision to be the biggest ...
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Jan 20, 2021 — Physicist Pekka Janhunen with the Finnish Meteorological Institute has ... Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars.
Jan 18, 2021 — “At first, astronomers assumed it must be a comet, because these are the objects that are most loosely bound to stars,” Loeb said. “The problem ...
Jan 19, 2021 — In the paper, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, astrophysicist Pekka Janhunen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki describes ...
Sep 20, 2017 — Asteroids are small, airless rocky worlds that revolve around the sun and ... Marina Brozovic, a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ...
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This Friday the 13th asteroid was initially designed as A10sHcN. Now it has an official asteroid designation, 2020 VT4. Astronomers estimate its size as between 16 and 36 feet (5-11 meters). The space rock swept closest at just 4,197 miles (6,754 km) from Earth's center (just 238 miles or 383 km over Earth's surface)!Nov 13, 2020
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The asteroid passed closest on November 29, 2020, at a safe distance of 11.2 times the Earth-moon distance. The asteroid will return, passing slightly closer on each subsequent flyby – first in November 2040 – and then in November 2093.Dec 1, 2020
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Oct 19, 2020 — The closest ever recorded approach by an asteroid occurred on August 16, when 2020 QG flew 1,830 miles above Earth's surface. Scientists at ...
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Apr 28, 2020 — The near-Earth asteroid 1998 OR2 is at least 1.5 kilometers across and will pass 16 lunar distances away on April 29, 2020. Image by Arecibo ...
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