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NASA is launching a mission to the asteroid in 2022 in the hope of exploring what was long thought to be the exposed iron core of a small planet. But a study has cast new light on its origins.
NASA's upcoming Psyche mission should provide some answers about this mysterious, iron-rich world.
$10,000 quadrillion worth Asteroid 16 Psyche has a different origin story, study suggests Scientists believed that asteroid 16 Psych is the exposed iron core of a small planet that failed to form during the earliest days of the solar system Will humans go extinct? A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Arizona has suggested that the previous understanding regarding asteroid 16 Psyche was entirely wrong. Earlier, scientists believed that asteroid 16 Psyche could be most probably the exposed iron core of a small planet that failed to form during the earliest days of the sola...
New research by a UArizona undergraduate finds that asteroid 16 Psyche, the target of an upcoming NASA mission, may not be as metallic or dense as predicted.