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NASA is planning a mission to an enormous metallic asteroid worth £8,000 quadrillion – Mirror Online
The asteroid, called 16 Psyche, is about 140 miles in diameter, and is estimated to be worth a staggering $10,000 quadrillion – that is, if it could somehow be…
NASA is planning a mission to an enormous metallic asteroid worth an estimated £7,700 quadrillion ($10,000 quadrillion).
The asteroid, called 16 Psyche, is about 140 miles in diameter, and is one of the most massive objects in the main asteroid belt orbiting between Mars in Jupiter.
Dr Tracy Becker, a planetary scientist at Southwest Research Institute, said: We’ve seen meteorites that are mostly metal, but Psyche could be unique in that it might be an asteroid that is totally made of iron and…
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