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A Nickel (USA 5-cent coin) weighs almost exactly 5g, which is useful to know. So 200 nickels is a kg. 16 Psyche's mass is 2.72x10^19 kg. Let's say 10^19 kgs o
by nealabq 6y ago
A Nickel (USA 5-cent coin) weighs almost exactly 5g, which is useful to know.
So 200 nickels is a kg.
16 Psyche's mass is 2.72x10^19 kg. Let's say 10^19 kgs of that is nickel.
With that you could mint 2x10^21 US-nickels, equivalent to 10^20 US-dollars.
The article reports that the asteroid is only worth 10^19 US-dollars, so we could buy 10 more asteroids with all the nickels from 16 Psyche.
And thus solve all the world's problems.