NASA to explore asteroid made of $10,000 quadrillion worth of metal
NASA recently announced it's latest endeavor: Explore a giant metal asteroid the size of Massachusetts.
Made up of mostly nickel and iron, the giant hunk of space metal is about three times further away from the Sun than Earth.
Enticingly, the mission's lead scientist has put a price tag of $10,000 quadrillion on the asteroid, known as "16 Psyche."
But NASA isn't there to pad it's budget for the fiscal year. Instead, it will study the possibility of Psyche being a "protoplanet," or the exposed core of an early planet.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/science-environment/article/NASA-to-explore-asteroid-made-of-10-000-10860219.php
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I think it would be nineteen zeros, but, well, I'm just not sure. 
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you're talking real money. - Everett Dirksen
or what I would call pocket change. 
