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Earth-buzzing Asteroid Would Be Worth $195B If We Could Catch It

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @08:47PM from the i'll-give-it-to-you-for-$99B dept.

coondoggie writes "The asteroid NASA says is about the half the size of a football field that will blow past Earth on Feb 15 could be worth up to $195 billion in metals and propellant. That's what the scientists at Deep Space Industries, a company that wants to mine these flashing hunks of space materials, thinks the asteroid known as 2012 DA14 is worth — if they could catch it."

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Re:Who owns the asteroid? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-02-12 21:14 · Score: 0, Troll

It is property of the United States and the IRS will certainly be there to collect if anyone were do manage to profit from it. Didn't you know that the US government can do anything they want anywhere in the universe?