Asteroid 16 Psyche worth more than Earth's economy will be the closest to the planet today

Hubble Telescope has revealed that about 370 million kilometres away from Earth is one of most valuable asteroids in our solar system called 16 Psyche. Studies have found that it is a giant asteroid survivor of a failed planet, and is worth $10,000 quadrillion. That’s more than entire ecomy of our planet.

asteroid has been slowly rusting in and is w aligned with earth and sun.  Today, it would make its closest approach to Earth and reach its brightest in night sky. One can view it from a telescope as it will be visible all night long in sky.

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16 Psyche asteroid will be closest to earth today

According to a paper published in Planetary Science Journal by Tracy M Becker and her team, here is all that we kw about asteroid:  asteroid is called Psyche and reportedly, it is target of NASA Discovery Mission Psyche, which is expected to launch in 2022. According to studies, asteroid will get within 1.6 astromical units of earth.

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Reportedly, Psyche revolves around Sun in main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. asteroid is considered as one of most massive objects that our solar system has aside from planets. composition of 16 Psyche is extremely dense and metallic and is made of iron and nickel, according to research paper.

According to reports, 16 Psyche could be a “protoplanet” and could have been a planet itself, which did t get to maturity. Dr. Tracy Becker in paper reveals, “Opposition means that it's going to be furst point away from Sun. opposition is best time to study something, especially in (visible) ultraviolet light, because it’s really dark and re's kind of glow in Earth’s atmosphere from sunlight”. Reportedly, asteroid is very large and very bright compared to or asteroids, however it shall t be visible to naked eye visibility.

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About composition of asteroid, Dr Tracy Becker states that y do t kw if it is a pure core leftover from a planetesimal that formed and n got destroyed. She furr stated, “That's what makes it interesting because when we get re we're going to find out what is going on.” 

Reportedly, re is a launch scheduled on a X Falcon Heavy rocket in August 2022. It is under NASA Psyche mission that will arrive at asteroid in January 2026. It is a 21-month mission that will be to map 16 Psyche.

Im credits: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/ASU

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