NASA’s plan to probe £8 QUINTILLION asteroid ‘could make everyone on Earth a billionaire’

will probe a unique that could hypothetically turn everyone on Earth into a multimillionaire due to its staggering value of £8,000,000,000,000,000,000 ($10 quintillion).

The eye-watering £8 quintillion price tag is due to the asteroid’s rare make-up, including the elements platinum and palladium which are both vital for the production of cars and electronics.

A Falcon Heavy rocket was sent by NASA last month to probe 16 Psyche – one of the largest M-type asteroids known to man – travelling 2.2 billion miles to the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter by July 2029.

that the asteroid is made up of 30-60% metal and spans a surface area of approximately 64,000 square miles.

If 16 Psyche does turn out to be worth £8 quintillion and this number is divided between the 8 billion people on Earth, everyone would get £1 billion.

Despite sounding like many people’s dreams, this would plunge economies into ruin and make the already mega-wealthy even more rich.

For example, the net worth of the world’s richest man, , is already 250 times more than the amount he would get from the astreroid, coming in at £248 billion.

Despite the potential to make everyone on earth close to being a billionaire, NASA will not investigate 16 Psyche just to harvest its metals. Instead the cores of planets and how planets form.

Hopefully, the probe will uncover whether the asteroid is a planetesimal – a rock from the very early days of the solar system, about 4.6 billion years ago.

A statement on : “The Psyche spacecraft is traveling to a unique metal-rich asteroid with the same name, orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.

“By August 2029 the spacecraft will begin exploring the asteroid that scientists think – because of its high metal content – may be the partial core of a planetesimal, a .”