Asteroid more valuable than the world?
An asteroid the size of Massachusetts discovered in the 1960s and about three times farther away from the sun than our planet could yield secrets about Earth’s molten core, and scientists want to learn all about it. Using data from the Hubble space telescope it is an estimated worth of $10,000 quadrillion. This is more than the entire economy of our entire planet put together.
So why is this asteroid so special? Well it is thought to be made up of Iron and Nicole, something that we value a lot. This rock is located between Mars and Jupiter and is one of the biggest objects in the asteroid belt! Even just .1% of this rock could be worth up to millions of dollars!
NASA has set a date for the launch of a no name rover to go to the rock in 2022. It will take an estimated 22 months for the rover to touchdown and discover what is on this massive rock. We are wanting to discover more about the universe and more about Earths inner core. We believe that this mission will successfully tell us more about how our universe was made and more about our planet.
Space has always fascinated me because there are so many things that are bigger than our own planet and bigger than we can even imagine. A rock the size of a whole state boggles my mind and the fact that on that rock has a value of the worlds entire economy and then some is insane. I hope oneway or another we get to this asteroid and we find out the mysteries of our own universe.
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