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    NASA's OSIRIS REx mission cost $1.16 billion for just under 9 ounces of asteroid dust.

    After a journey of seven years and nearly 4 billion miles, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft landed gently in the Utah desert on the morning of Sept. 24, 2023, with a precious payload.

    The spacecraft brought back a sample from the asteroid Bennu.

    Roughly half a pound of material collected from the 85 million-ton asteroid (77.6 billion kg) will help scientists learn about the formation of the solar system, including whether asteroids like Bennu include the chemical ingredients for life.

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    OSIRIS-REx collected a sample from the asteroid Bennu.

    A handful of asteroid works out to $132 million per ounce, or $4.7 million per gram.

    That's about 70,000 times the price of gold, which has been in the range of $1,800 to $2,000 per ounce ($60 to $70 per gram) for the past few years.

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    A chondrite from the Viñales meteorite, which originated from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

    Some space rocks cost nothing. Almost 50 tons of free samples from the solar system rain down on the Earth every day.

    Most burn up in the atmosphere, but if they reach the ground they're called meteorites, and most of those come from asteroids.

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    An iron meteorite.

    Some elements and minerals are expensive because they’re scarce.

    Simple elements in the periodic table have low prices.

    Per ounce, carbon costs one-third of a cent, iron costs 1 cent, aluminum costs 56 cents, and even mercury is less than a dollar (per 100 grams, carbon costs $2.40, iron costs less than a cent and aluminum costs 19 cents).

    Silver is $14 per ounce (50 cents per gram), and gold, $1,900 per ounce ($67 per gram).

    Seven radioactive elements are extremely rare in nature and so difficult to create in the lab that they eclipse the price of NASA's Mars Sample Return.

    Polonium-209, the most expensive of these, costs $1.4 trillion per ounce ($49 billion per gram).

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