Now flies past Earth asteroid, which is estimated at several trillion dollars – the Ekho Moskvy radio station

According to some reports, this cosmic body platinum core.
piece of ore that could be worth twice as much as Russia’s GDP, close to the planet by about 2.5 million kilometers. This is several times longer than the distance from Earth to the Moon, so that the naked eye to see the asteroid fail. But behind it are closely monitoring observatory in different parts of the world. It is not the most dangerous proximity of the asteroid with the Earth. Attracted the attention of the general public posts on the composition of the celestial body. How to write the British media, the American company Planetary Resources, which is developing a program of resource extraction in space, and hopes one day to get to the core of the asteroid. Inside, presumably, there are about hundreds of millions of tons of platinum – in current prices it is nearly 5.5 trillion US dollars. However, if people have access to that amount of the precious metal, it would be devalued and the economy-earner would have been in deep crisis, like the Spanish economy after the removal of gold from the New World.
Asteroid presumably with platinum nucleus, according to astonomov, flies past Earth once every 3.5 years.