New Maps of Asteroid 16 Psyche Reveal Unusual Details + NASA Mission Soon!

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[whatdamath]

It's been delayed for administrative reasons and mostly because NASA is reshuffling some of its staff

[sriganesh_sharma]

This is the most wholesome comments section in YouTube. Warms my heart to see people being so nice to each other in this day and age.

[AceSpadeThePikachu]

16 Psyche is "metal" and "hard-core" in literally every sense. I'm "Psyched" for this mission. ;P

[McClarinJ]

Psyche now delayed till next year due to software testing problems of the Pyche spacecraft. No definite target date.

[winnieg]

You have been giving the most informative lectures. Thank you. God bless your family.

[edreusser]

wouldn't a collision with an external body vaporize a bunch of the metal? A lot of those metal atoms will exceed the escape velocity of the asteroid during an intense reaction like that. Even a large asteroid has a surface gravity of something on the order of 5 to 10% that of any of the planets. This means that not only is metal leached from the surface over time, but differential fractionation also ensures that the metals with the highest melting point will be redeposited every time there was a meteor strike. Its actually not the melting point, but rather the ones with the lowest dewpoint condensation point.

My guess is that scientists will have taken all this into consideration, but since it really answers so many of the questions in the article I am puzzled why it wasn't mentioned.

[SocksWithSandals]

Not to mention that metallic asteroids could be the raw materials out of which we build large space stations in the solar system.

[Kidderrgaming]

You are so deserving of your 1 million subscribers Anton! I am almost surprised it took this long, but it's only just beginning!

[stevenkarnisky]

Thank you, wonderful Anton! Another baby step in our understanding of the universe, but a step, nonetheless!

[certaindeath]

interesting video. i guess this could be formed, when 2 or more asteroids of different type collide, but the remaining object stays too small to develope the heat for large scale tectonics to "sort" the materials and make layers.

[margaretford]

Sorry, Anton. NASA has had to postpone the mission due to delays in software development / testing / approval. They are going to miss the window for launch.

[davidboyle]

Bummer that the Psyche mission is being delayed. As presented, it’s even more interesting than the remnant core it was originally thought to be. Nice presentation.

[ScreamingJerrylee]

Anton, I love your videos. I think that this was beginning to be a planet. It had a lava rock core and the metal outside was other metallic comets or meteors that hit it.

[gaactic_muffin]

Your channel works wonders for sleep.. love it

[sum_rye_hash_]

If it was a metallic core with a rocky shell, when it got destroyed by an impact some of the rocky bits could have fallen back into the liquid core, imbedding and mixing it into the still molten metal core. That would be great in we could tunnel out the rocky bits and have a solid metal tunnel or cavern to build a space colony in the far future. I wonder what the gravity of psyche is like on the surface?

[drds]

Oh, you didn't hear that the Psyche mission won't be launching until at the earliest the end of 2023 or at the end of 2024 did you? They ran into software integration issues.

I am super bummed about it. I was planning on traveling to Florida to watch the launch later in the year.

Edit - This is also assuming the mission doesn't get scrapped if it goes over budget. Apparently in this round of Discovery Class missions, the budgets are fixed, from what I understand.
This also all just happened in the last week or so. They need some time to sit down, look over everything and plan their next move.

[markgamble]

Love what your doing for the children…

[AgeOfChange]

Nice video mate very entertaining and as always you're the wonderful person

[jasoncaldwell]

Could be a literal and figurative good mine - if there's water along with easily mined metals on the surface, it might be a perfect place to set up a manufacturing/ship building base.

Maybe send robots first to extract and purify a bunch of water for humans to use, while rovers and robots conduct geologic surveys.

[scientchahming]

16 Psych would make a great place to build a spacestead!