Hubble telescope gives closer look at rare asteroid worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000

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Hubble telescope gives closer look at rare asteroid worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000

The massive asteroid 16 Psyche is the subject of a new study by Southwest Research Institute scientist Tracy Becker, who observed the object at ultraviolet wavelengths. Maxar/ASU/P. Rubin/NASA/JPL-Caltech

 

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There's an extremely rare metallic asteroid lurking between Mars and Jupiter, and it's worth more than the

 

entire global economy. Now, the Hubble Space Telescope has given us a closer look at the object, which is

 

worth an estimated $10,000 quadrillion. 

 

A new study this week in The Planetary Science Journal delves deeper than ever before into the mysteries

 

of the asteroid 16 Psyche, one of the most massive objects in the solar system's main asteroid belt orbiting

 

between Mars and Jupiter, about 230 million miles from Earth. It measures about 140 miles in diameter —

 

roughly the size of Massachusetts. 

 

Most asteroids are made of rocks or ice. But 16 Psyche is dense and mostly made of metal, possibly the

 

leftover core of a planet that never succeeded in forming — a so-called "protoplanet," which had its core

 

exposed following hit-and-run collisions that removed the body of its mantle. 

 

The study marks the first ultraviolet (UV) observations of the celestial object. New data reveals the

 

asteroid may be made entirely of iron and nickel — found in the dense cores of planets.  

 

"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 nickel," lead author Dr. Tracy Becker said in a statement. "Earth has a metal

 

core, a mantle and crust. It's possible that as a Psyche protoplanet was forming, it was struck by another

 

object in our solar system and lost its mantle and crust."

 

Scientists studied the asteroid at two points in its rotation in order to view the details of both sides

 

completely at UV wavelengths. They found the surface could be mostly iron, but warned that even a small

 

amount of iron would dominate UV observations. 

 

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There's an asteroid in space worth $10 quadrillion

A new study has given us a closer look at 16 Psyche, a rare metallic asteroid worth an estimated $10,000,000,000,000,000,000.

 

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to bad its resources will not be shared by mankind...some company will get it all when the technology ever allows man to exploit it

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