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$200 billion number about what its cost would be worth. how do we get to that number? how do we put a price tag on this asteroid? >> well, you know, we could look at the composition ofas resides and figure out what their value is according to their mineral worth. if we could actually mine them and, of course, thats another story altogether, but when we think about the kind of minerals that we find there, some of them very rare ones that we need here on earth or that we use quite extentively here...

Mean? lets get some answers from derek pits. the scientific name is the higgs boss on particle. many are asking what is it? >> what this particle is, scientists theorize, this is the particle that will impart mass to other particles. because it has that property is it drags particles through a higgs field where they pick up mass. that gives them the capability to turn into other particles and become the building blocks of everything in the universe. >> is this the match that started it all? >> i...

Nasas plan is. nasa was essentially putting aside the way of getting off the planet from old, from the 1960s, and 70 into a new era. its an evolution of the space program. what nasa is working on is the easy stuff, launching cargo to the international space station while looking into sinning people on the more dangerous, and more out reaching missions into the solar system. heather: thank you so much for skwraeupbg us. w joining us. derek pits. gregg: you would love to do it. heather: yes, i wou...