Psyching out Psyche – Gut-Checking the Asteroid Miner’s Paradise
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft approaches asteroid. Will it be an encounter of the “ironclad” kind?
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU.
Sent skyward earlier this month, NASA’s outbound Psyche spacecraft is making its way to a unique asteroid of the same name. The asteroid is supposedly sporting a metal core that some space miners hungrily value at many trillions of dollars. The object is viewed as a mother lode of high iron-nickel metal.
By August 2029, the Psyche spacecraft will begin to orbit the space rock – the only metal-class asteroid ever to be explored.
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