"Platinum asteroid" Which Worth Nearly $5 Trillion Skim Over The Earth

Beijing time July 20th 6:30 pm, a "platinum asteroid" will pass the Earth, according to analysts, the asteroid bears 100 million tons of platinum, the potential value of $5.4 trillion.

According to media reports, a potential value of $ 5.4 trillion of "platinum asteroid" will be passing close to Earth on July 20, people in Beijing 20 July 06 30 pm (EDT July 19 Day 18:30) real-time observations of asteroids.

The asteroid is 2011 UW-158, the Canary Islands observatory Real Player 2011 UW-158 passing scene planet via the Internet. At present, it is subject to "Planet Resource" pay close attention to asteroid mining company, because the asteroid has 100 million tons of platinum kernel weight, "Planetary Resources" company plans its future mining.

July 20, 2011 UW-158 perigee distance of 2.4 million kilometers, is one of the planet Earth is closest to the distance of three. Its diameter is less than 1 km, but because of the platinum core is considered to have great value.

Called "Survey (Slooh)" space research institutions, the telescope together with an Internet connection to facilitate public observation, will provide live video image on the site, while online discussion asteroid value for future space exploration.
Planetary Resources astronomer Bob Berman said: "When an asteroid and Earth pass is very interesting, therefore Survey Telescope for 2011 UW-158 were follow-up observations, it reaches perigee is only 2.4 million kilometers from Earth with. all the difference is that the asteroid has vast deposits of platinum, and perhaps the future of our company will soon be mining the asteroid mining. "

Planetary Resources Inc. 2011 UW-158 as "X type" asteroids, usually X type asteroids are mainly made of metal, and completely separated into the core and mantle layer of the large asteroid debris material. In the early history of the solar system, period, many were destroyed in the huge asteroid collision, only the final residual hard metal core.

July 16, the planetary resources has released a plan to launch the International Space Station from the asteroid mining test vehicle will perform 90 days in space mission, involving testing software and control systems. The company hopes to one day be able to launch the next detector in the solar system to find rich resources of near-Earth asteroids.

The test car was named "Al Cade again on the 3rd test vehicle (A3R)", Planetary Resources Inc. hope for the future design of the detector can be extracted from the asteroid's surface water resources. Found in the asteroid's surface water resources are very important, the water can be broken down into hydrogen and oxygen, as rocket fuel, so the aircraft to stay longer in the space environment, the future can be used to survey found space precious metals.