Tag: Psyche
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A Strange, Old Asteroid Is Orbiting Our Sun — NASA’s New Psyche Mission Will Hunt For Its Origin
If a novel chronicled the Solar System’s history in a thousand or so pages (roughly the length of the Lord of the Rings trilogy), the scene NASA’s Psyche mission is trying to understand happens on page one. Asteroid Psyche preserves the memory of the dramatic event that forged it. This dense, potentially metal-rich object is…