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How might asteroids be valuable?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Asteroids contain valuable heavy metals such as palladium, gold, rhodium, platinum, iridium etc. Surveys have deduced that the asteroid 241 Germania could yield profits of up to $95 trillion, that's just one of 600,000 asteroids surveyed for composition.

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