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16 Psyche: Asteroid with Silver, Gold, Platinum, etc.
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16 Psyche is a giant metal-rich asteroid.
The “16” prefix is added because it was the sixteenth of the minor planets to be discovered in chronological order.
Its average diameter is about 226 kilometers – about one-sixteenth the diameter of Earth’s Moon.
Psyche is about three times farther away from the Sun than is the Earth.
Psyche orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter at a distance ranging from 378 million to 497 million kilometers from the Sun.
Psyche takes about five Earth years to complete one orbit of the Sun, but it takes just over four hours to rotate once on its axis (a Psyche “day”).
16 Psyche isn’t like any of the other asteroids around it.
NASA believes that it could be the core of a planet that “died” in the early days of the Solar System.
This planet was hit by multiple collisions with other objects (at least more than 3).
This impact had so much force that its outer layers of rock or gas got stripped, leaving only the inert core floating in space.
asteroid Psyche can offer a close look at the interior of terrestrial planets like Earth whose impact is normally hidden beneath layers of mantle and crust.
the Psyche spacecraft is targeted to launch in August 2022, and it would arrive at the asteroid in early 2026, following a Mars gravity assist in 2023.
16 Psyche has become so famous because, it is mainly made out of metal and a big part of that can are what we consider to be precious metals (silver, gold, platinum, etc).
Thank you for watching.
Credit:
ScienceAtNASA
Astro Biological
The “16” prefix is added because it was the sixteenth of the minor planets to be discovered in chronological order.
Its average diameter is about 226 kilometers – about one-sixteenth the diameter of Earth’s Moon.
Psyche is about three times farther away from the Sun than is the Earth.
Psyche orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter at a distance ranging from 378 million to 497 million kilometers from the Sun.
Psyche takes about five Earth years to complete one orbit of the Sun, but it takes just over four hours to rotate once on its axis (a Psyche “day”).
16 Psyche isn’t like any of the other asteroids around it.
NASA believes that it could be the core of a planet that “died” in the early days of the Solar System.
This planet was hit by multiple collisions with other objects (at least more than 3).
This impact had so much force that its outer layers of rock or gas got stripped, leaving only the inert core floating in space.
asteroid Psyche can offer a close look at the interior of terrestrial planets like Earth whose impact is normally hidden beneath layers of mantle and crust.
the Psyche spacecraft is targeted to launch in August 2022, and it would arrive at the asteroid in early 2026, following a Mars gravity assist in 2023.
16 Psyche has become so famous because, it is mainly made out of metal and a big part of that can are what we consider to be precious metals (silver, gold, platinum, etc).
Thank you for watching.
Credit:
ScienceAtNASA
Astro Biological
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