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To: MythMan who wrote (53153)	7/26/1999 2:12:00 PM
From: John Pitera	Respond to of 86076

I got a newsflash......Goldmines in Space..don't tell Luc it will break his heart -g- Sci/Tech Gold rush in space? Two views of Eros, a prime chunk of real estate in outer space By BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse The most detailed study of an asteroid shows that it contains precious metals worth at least $20,000bn. The data were collected last December by the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (Near) spacecraft which passed close to the asteroid Eros. It provided an unprecedented look at one of the mountains of rock that fly around the solar system. The first conclusions from that encounter are now published the journal Science. Eros: A "banana" in space Near, which due to a computer malfunction will not be able to go into orbit around Eros until next year, revealed that the asteriod is shaped like a 33 km by 13 km by 13 km banana. Over a thousand images of Eros were transmitted back to Earth that allowed scientists to estimate its size and mass. The results are startling. Gold mine in space Eros is believed to have been formed from the wreckage of a collision with a larger body. Its composition appears to be similar to the stony meteorites that frequently fall to Earth. BBC 5Live investigates the Torino Scale, a Richter Scale for meteorites That means Eros is a goldmine in space, as well as a platinum mine, a zinc mine and many more minerals besides. If Eros is typical of stony meteorites, then it contains about 3% metal. With the known abundance's of metals in meteorites, even a very cautious estimate suggests 20,000 million tonnes of aluminium along with similar amounts of gold, platinum and other rarer metals. 216.32.180.250