Gold Asteroid Found Worth "Quintillions" of Dollars; NASA Plans to Mine its Gold

from RT.com https://www.rt.com/business/462703-golden-asteroid-everyone-billionaire/

"Whether it was the Big Bang, Midas or God himself, we don’t really need to unlock the mystery of the origins of gold when we’ve already identified an asteroid worth $700 quintillion in precious heavy metals."

"If anything launches this metals mining space race, it will be this asteroid--Psyche 16, taking up residence between Mars and Jupiter and carrying around enough heavy metals to net every single person on the planet close to a trillion dollars.

The massive quantities of gold, iron and nickel contained in this asteroid are mind-blowing. The discovery has been made. Now, it’s a question of proving it up.

NASA plans to do just that, beginning in 2022."

Hmmmmm.  If I wanted to justify a huge budget for a space program, claiming it could pay for itself through mining infinite gold supplies would be an interesting method.