- American Space Agency, NASA, is set to send its “Psyche Mission” to visit a giant asteroid called Psyche, which could be the frozen remains of molten core of a bygone world.
- Psyche asteroid orbits around the Sun in main asteroid belt, in between Mars and Jupiter.
- According to data gathered through Earth-based radar and optical telescopes, Psyche is made largely of metal.
- Psyche could be part or all of the iron-rich interior of any earlier planetary building block which got stripped of its outer rocky shell because of repeated collision with other large bodies during the initiation phases of formation of the solar system.
- The asteroid is about 280 kilometres at its widest point.
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