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Veuer's Elizabeth Keatinge tells us about why asteroid mining could be the next great industry.
Transcript
00:00Mini-moons might be more than a scientific phenomenon.
00:04Some entrepreneurs see the two-month mini-moon as a business opportunity.
00:09According to Business Insider, asteroid mining could someday help humans travel further out into the cosmos
00:15and extend our presence through the solar system.
00:18Scientists say mini-moons are ideal targets.
00:21Some asteroids contain valuable metals and water.
00:25Nobody's mined an asteroid yet.
00:27NASA did punch one in 2020 and grabbed scientific samples.
00:31If asteroid mining gets going, the payoffs could be huge.
00:35Check out Psyche.
00:37NASA is sending a spacecraft there for scientific study.
00:40With Psyche's iron and nickel makeup, it could be worth 100 quintillion if it were here on Earth.

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