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Shaped Metal Earth-Delivery Systems

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Michel Verne (1861-1925), son of the famous storyteller Jules Verne (1828-1905), rewrote and posthumously published The Chase of the Golden Meteor (1908). An entirely gold metal asteroid of enormous size, the public announcement of its “out-of-the-blue” coming to rest on the Earth’s surface provokes an epic worldwide financial crisis. In 1941, Georges Prosper Remi (1907-1983), also widely known by his penname “Herge”, published a newspaper serialized children’s tale featuring his internationally beloved child-adventurer, the boy TINTIN, performing in “The Shooting Star”, and considering the effects on fiercely rival capitalist financiers competing over possession of the strange solid body containing a fictitious mineral, “phostlite”, which exhibits previously unknown, environmental-active globally influential properties.

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Cathcart, R.B., Bolonkin, A.A., Badescu, V., Stanciu, D. (2013). Shaped Metal Earth-Delivery Systems. In: Badescu, V. (eds) Asteroids. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39244-3_22

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