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NASA is preparing a mission to a $10 quadrillion asteroid

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Asteroid Psyche is composed mostly of iron, nickel, gold and other rare metals and is about 225 km in diameter.

The American space agency NASA has scheduled the start of a long-awaited space mission to the massive metal-rich asteroid Psyche on October 5. This is stated in the message of NASA.

Initially, the launch was supposed to take place in August 2022, but it was postponed due to design and organizational problems.

Located 280 million miles away, asteroid Psyche was discovered in 1852 by Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis. It orbits the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

This asteroid is believed to be composed mostly of iron, nickel, gold and other rare metals and has a diameter of about 225 km.

According to astronomers, Psyche may represent the metallic core of a forming planet that lost its rocky outer layer due to violent collisions during the early development of the solar system.

It is believed that the value of Psyche can reach 10 thousand quadrillion dollars, which exceeds the total economy of our planet.

In the past, scientists discovered in the found meteorite two minerals that had never been found on Earth before.

Extraterrestrial water has been found in a meteorite for the first time

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