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Loading contentA metal-rich main-belt asteroid and NASA mission target.
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How 16 Psyche connects across Asteria Star — scientific, cultural, and astrological links are kept separate.
The Sun and the bodies gravitationally bound to it.
The main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, home to the great majority of known asteroids — from the dwarf planet Ceres down to countless small bodies.
Psyche is travelling to the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche to study a possible exposed planetary core.
Extracting metals — iron, nickel, and precious metals — from asteroids and from lunar and Martian regolith, to build structures in space without lifting the mass from Earth. Metal-rich M-type asteroids such as Psyche are studied as future resources.
A large, dark asteroid in the outer main belt.
A near-Earth asteroid sampled by NASA's OSIRIS-REx.
The first Mars-crossing asteroid discovered — its orbit crosses that of Mars.
The largest stony (S-type) asteroid and the parent of the Eunomia family in the intermediate main belt.
The namesake of the Hilda group, whose members orbit in a 3:2 mean-motion resonance with Jupiter in the outer main belt.
One of the most elongated known asteroids, a near-Earth Apollo object well characterised by radar.
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Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
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Orbital data, ephemerides, and small-body parameters for planets, asteroids, and comets.