{"id":2785,"date":"2025-06-05T13:17:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T13:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/the-moon-could-be-home-to-precious-metals-worth-1-trillion\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T13:17:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T13:17:22","slug":"the-moon-could-be-home-to-precious-metals-worth-1-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/the-moon-could-be-home-to-precious-metals-worth-1-trillion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moon could be home to precious metals worth $1 trillion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-06-05 13:17:22<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>The Moon could be hiding precious metals worth $1 trillion.<BR><br \/>\nScientists have made the &#8220;conservative&#8221; estimate based on a study that analysed the lunar surface&#8217;s pockmarked terrain and calculated how many of its craters were likely to have been formed by asteroids rich in platinum group metals (PGMs) &#8211; ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium and platinum itself.<BR><br \/>\nJayanth Vyasanakere, the study&#8217;s lead author, said: &#8220;On cosmic timescales, over several generations of stellar birth and death, they get mixed with other elements and end up in planet-forming discs and then within planets and asteroids.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Metallic asteroids have a significant fraction of iron, and the PGMs are found bound to it. When these asteroids strike a body such as the Moon, depending on the impact velocity some of it may survive.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nThe Moon does not have an atmosphere to destroy the space rocks or tectonic plates to bury the debris, so whatever hits the surface should theoretically remain there.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-06-05 13:17:22 The Moon could be hiding precious metals worth $1 trillion. Scientists have made the &#8220;conservative&#8221; estimate based on a study that analysed the lunar surface&#8217;s pockmarked terrain and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2786,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions\/2786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}