Astronomers are watching a new comet pass through our solar system with great interest. The 33-billion-ton interstellar object is super flat and, based on the glow emanating from it, is believed to contain a shockingly high quantity of nickel.

3I/ATLAS was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) based in Chile. It’s only the third interstellar object to be observed in our Solar System, meaning it originated from somewhere beyond our infinitesimally small section of the universe.

As of Friday, nickel is selling for $6.90 per pound. That means that, at 33 billion tons, that asteroid would be potentially worth $455 trillion.

That would make the $1 billion of nickel ore Lander’s Visionary Metals Corp. hopes to get out of the prospects near Jeffrey City

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