{"id":19315,"date":"2015-11-14T06:46:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T14:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/this-20-trillion-rock-could-turn-a-startup-into-earths-richest-company"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:24:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:24:18","slug":"this-20-trillion-rock-could-turn-a-startup-into-earths-richest-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/this-20-trillion-rock-could-turn-a-startup-into-earths-richest-company","title":{"rendered":"This $20 Trillion Rock Could Turn a Startup Into Earth\u2019s Richest Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aozEVAhSkdM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Meet Amun 3554. Doesn\u2019t look like much, right? Little more than a mile wide, it\u2019s one of the smallest M-class (metal-bearing) asteroids yet discovered. Unless it ever decides to smash into us \u2014 a theoretical possibility, but extremely unlikely over the next few centuries \u2014 it will continue orbiting the sun, unknown and unmolested.<\/p>\n<p>That is, unless Planetary Resources has its way. Planetary Resources is the <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/04\/24\/planetary-resources\/\" data-crackerjax=\"#post-slider\">asteroid-mining company launched Tuesday in Seattle<\/a>, with <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/04\/20\/google-execs-james-cameron-space-venture\/\" data-crackerjax=\"#post-slider\">backing from Microsoft and Google billionaires<\/a>, along with the equally prominent <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/james-cameron\/\">James Cameron<\/a> and Ross Perot Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Its object is to completely dismember poor little rocks like Amun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/04\/26\/planetary-resources-asteroid-mining-trillions\/#Xbv_yvqBl5qK\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Amun 3554. Doesn\u2019t look like much, right? Little more than a mile wide, it\u2019s one of the smallest M-class (metal-bearing) asteroids yet discovered. Unless it ever decides to smash into us \u2014 a theoretical possibility, but extremely unlikely over the next few centuries \u2014 it will continue orbiting the sun, unknown and unmolested. That [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63703,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315\/revisions\/63703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}