One estimate suggests the 16 Psyche asteroid contains $18 quintillion in heavy metals.
An artist's illustration of the Psyche spacecraft.The mission will also investigate whether 16 Psyche is a "partial core of a shattered planetesimal — a small world the size of a city or small country that is the first building block of a planet," according to NASA'sLast year's delay still had a significant negative impact on the mission, however.
"What happened with VERITAS is, it didn't ramp up as expected, and Psyche stayed ramped up longer," JPL Director Laurie Leshin stated at the same press conference. "Psyche has been staffed for most of this year at about 160 JPLers," she added. "And some of those may have gone off to work VERITAS if [Psyche had] launched, but I'm not certain of those numbers."
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