An asteroid with a colossal value of $ 10,000,000,000,000,000 (ten million billion dollars), which NASA intends to capture, could have shocking and unforeseen consequences.
NASA tries to capture the asteroid 16 Psycho PHOTO NASA
In 2023, the American space agency announced that it will go to the high value as a value called 16 Psycho, writes UNILAD.
The asteroid is assumed contains precious metals, including gold, iron and nickel, and NASA is extremely interested in reaching it.
“Teams of engineers and technicians work almost non-stop to ensure that the probe is ready to travel 2.5 billion miles to a metal-rich asteroid, which could give us more information about planetary nuclei and the formation of planets.”NASA said in a statement from July 2023.
The mission officially started in October 2023, when the spacecraft was launched from the Kennedy Space Center of NASA in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Traveling through space at a speed of about 84,000 mph (about 135,000 km/h), the probe is expected to reach the precious asteroid in August 2029.
Although asteroid 16 Psyche is known for a long time, experts continue to discover new things about its composition and value.
According to Newsweek, the estimated value of the asteroid is 100,000 times higher than the Global Gross Domestic product, which amounts to 100 trillion dollars (one hundred trillion dollars), due to the huge amount of gold, platinum and cobalt. Theoretically, this value would be sufficient to transform every inhabitant of the planet into a billionaire. An amazing perspective.
Many have commented that such an event could lead to the total devaluation of gold, which, by default, would mean huge losses for many people.
A user wrote: “It would not turn anyone into a billionaire, but it would bring many billionaires to zero. The gold will completely lose its value.”
Another added: “The price of gold would decrease to a fraction of cent-per cent and no one would become a billionaire. It is simply the law of demand and supply.”
NASA estimates that this strange asteroid, which has an area of approximately 64,000 square miles (165,800 square kilometers), is made up of 30 to 60% of metal.
It is assumed that it could even contain the nickel and iron core of an early planet, that is one of the fundamental components of our solar system.
