Psyche Spacecraft Is Slated To Travel To Metal Asteroid

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft

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Credit: Ben Smegelsky/NASA
Lindy Elkins-Tanton, the principal investigator for NASA’s upcoming mission to the asteroid Psyche, sheepishly confesses that the $10-quadrillion estimate of the value of iron, nickel and gold contained in the asteroid—a figure cited in Forbes , Reuters and other financial news outlets—came from her...

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